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Going Blindly Into Python Scripts to Move TV Time Tracking to Sequel

• Jonathan

I consider myself pretty knowledgeable about technology in general, but one area where I have a real weakness is coding, scripting, and the like. I’ve played around with it before, but despite some attempts to learn languages like SwiftUI, my efforts have always petered out. That meant the challenge my wife gave me this week took me way outside my comfort zone.

My wife and I watch quite a lot of TV and movies, and we enthusiastically track everything – down to the episode. I’ve been using Sequel, the MacStories Selects Award-winning app for tracking media, for several years, while my wife has been using TV Time. I used the app before Sequel came along and found it to be decent, if not lacking many features. Recently, my wife’s become frustrated with the app’s stability and has been looking jealously at Sequel’s nice UI on my iPhone every time I open it up to log an episode.