How to use every part of TidyWL for Netflix

Read a title card

The grid on the My List tab

• The ★ number in the top-right corner of the art is the IMDb rating. Click it to open the title on IMDb.
• The title is a link to the title's page on Netflix.
• The badges under it: Unavailable when Netflix lists the title but cannot play it, Original, Watched, and Leaving soon. A red bar across the foot of the art means you are partway through.
• The line under the badges gives the year, the runtime or the number of seasons, and the maturity rating. The # number at its end is the title's place in Netflix's own order.
• The genre chips at the bottom each filter the grid to that genre. A + chip shows the rest.
• On hover, two buttons appear at the art's bottom-right: Remove (the bin) and the pin. See Remove and Pin.

Filter My List

Toolbar → Find → the funnel (Filter)

1. Open Filter. It holds six groups, one choice in each:
   • Type: Shows & movies, Shows only, Movies only.
   • Availability: Any availability, Playable, Unavailable, Leaving soon.
   • Watched: Any watch state, Not started, Partway, Watched.
   • IMDb rating: Any rating, 8.0 and up, 7.0 and up, 6.0 and up, Unrated.
   • Runtime: Any runtime, Movies under 90 min, Movies 90–120 min, Movies over 120 min.
   • Pins: Pinned or not, Pinned, Not pinned.
2. The menu stays open while you choose, so you can set type and rating in one go. Click outside it to close it.
3. Each active filter shows as a chip beside the toolbar's search. The × on a chip removes that one; Clear all removes every one.
4. To find one title by name, click the magnifier (Search) and type in Search titles….

To filter by genre, click a row in By Genre, or a genre chip on any card.

Every Runtime choice is for movies, as its label says, so picking one hides every show.

Search matches title names, which Netflix gives in your profile's language.

Changing what is shown clears your selection. Filter first, then select.

Sort My List

Toolbar → Find → Sort

1. Pick an order: Netflix's order, Title A–Z, Title Z–A, Newest first, Oldest first, Longest first (movies), Shortest first (movies) or IMDb rating.
2. Or, under Grouped, pick By type, By watch state or By decade. Each group gets a heading with its count, an arrow that folds it shut, and Select all, which then reads Clear.

There is no sort by date added. Netflix keeps no date on My List that TidyWL can read, and Netflix's own order is its choice, not the order you added titles.

Sorting never clears your selection. Folding a group drops its titles from the selection, so nothing out of sight stays selected.

Break My List down by genre

My List sidebar → By Genre

1. The breakdown lists the genres in your list, biggest first, each with a bar for how many titles it holds.
2. Click a row to see only that genre. Click it again to drop the filter.
3. The list starts at ten rows. Show 10 More adds more; Show Fewer folds it back.
4. The small arrow at the end of a row opens that genre on Netflix's own site, in a new tab.

A title has several genres, so the rows add up to more than the titles in your list. The genre names are Netflix's, in your profile's language.

See what is leaving Netflix

My List sidebar → Leaving soon · Toolbar → Filter → Availability → Leaving soon

1. Press Sync. Sync checks which titles in your list Netflix is about to remove. It asks Netflix once per 100 titles, and only when you press Sync.
2. Each one gets a Leaving soon badge, with Netflix's own sentence under it, such as "Last day to watch on Netflix: October 5".
3. The Leaving soon card in the sidebar counts them and says which Sync the count comes from. Press Show them to see only those titles, and Show all to go back.
4. The same filter is in Filter → Availability → Leaving soon, on My List and inside every playlist.

Leaving soon is as of your last Sync. Netflix changes its list daily, so Sync again every few days to keep it current. If Netflix did not answer the whole check, the card says there may be more.

The extension's icon in the browser toolbar lists the same titles. See the toolbar button.

Pro When you open the dashboard, a line above the grid names any title that has started leaving since, once per title, and Tonight gives leaving titles a small nudge up.

0:58 VideoWhat's Leaving Netflix From Your List?Leaving soon marks, with Netflix's last day for each title.

See a title's details without opening it

Any title card, on any tab

1. Rest the pointer on a card for a moment. A panel opens beside it with a still, the year, the runtime or seasons, the maturity rating and the synopsis.
2. Under that are rows of chips: Cast, Director (or Creators for a show) and Genres.
3. Click a person to search Netflix for them on the Search tab. Click a genre to browse that category.

The panel stays open while the pointer moves from the card onto it, so you can read and select its text. Clicking anywhere else closes it.

Each panel costs one request to Netflix, so it waits until the pointer rests, asks about one title at a time, and keeps every answer. Sweeping the pointer across the grid asks for nothing.

Select titles

The cards · Toolbar → Select & move → Select all shown

1. Click a card, or its checkbox, to select it. Clicking the title link or a button on the art does not.
2. Hold Shift and click another card to select everything between the two.
3. Select all shown selects every title your filters show, not the whole list. Press it again to clear. Ctrl/Cmd+A does the same.
4. A bar floats over the grid, such as "3 titles selected", with Clear to empty the selection.

Open in tabs, in the Export, import & open group, opens the selected titles on Netflix: one in front, several behind. Above five, it asks first.

Remove titles from My List in one go

Toolbar → the red bin (Remove selected)

1. Select the titles you want gone.
2. Press the red bin. It asks "Remove 12 titles from My List?" and offers Remove 12, Cancel, and Review the 12 titles.
3. Review the 12 titles opens the exact list, each title with a checkbox. Untick anything you want to keep. Search these titles… finds one in a long list, and Shift-click unticks a range. The button at the foot carries the number that is left.
4. TidyWL removes them one at a time, with a Stop button. The summary, Removed from My List, says what went. If some could not be removed, they stay selected and Retry runs them again.

To remove one title, hover its card and click the bin on its art (Remove).

This removes the title from your real My List on Netflix, on every device, because it is the same list. The free version cannot undo it. With Pro, the summary carries Undo, and Removal history keeps what you removed for 90 days.

A pinned title is never removed. The question says how many pins held back.

Export and import My List

Toolbar → Export, import & open → Export (the up arrow) and the down arrow (Import into My List from a file)

1. Filter the list down to what you want, or select titles.
2. Open Export and pick Export as CSV (Excel native) or Export as JSON. With titles selected, the menu offers two groups, Selected and Everything shown, each with its count.
3. To add titles to My List from a file, press the down arrow and pick a JSON file TidyWL exported, from My List or from your playlists. You can also drop the file onto the dashboard.

The file stays on your computer. Import is how you move a list to another Netflix profile or account: export it from one, open the dashboard on the other, and import it.

Import adds titles at a steady pace and pauses now and then so Netflix keeps answering. Titles already in My List are left alone.

Search Netflix by title, actor or director

Header → Search tab → Search Netflix

1. Open the Search tab. It opens on Search Netflix.
2. Type a title, a person or a genre into the box and press Search, or Enter.
3. Results arrive as cards. Load more at the foot fetches the next set.
4. Use Sort for Netflix's order, Title A–Z, Title Z–A or IMDb rating, and Filter for type, availability, IMDb rating and runtime.

Sorting and filtering here work on the results already loaded. Press Load more first to include the rest.

A card that is already in your list says In My List, as of your last Sync.

Browse by genre, including the hidden categories

Header → Search tab → Browse by genre

1. Press Browse by genre, then choose Films or TV.
2. Pick a category from the row of chips, which puts the genres you have most of first, or from the All menu beside them, which lists Netflix's own genres and how many of yours are in each.
3. For the rest, open the dashed Hidden menu. It holds more than a hundred categories Netflix keeps out of its own genre menu, such as Mockumentaries and Satanic Stories, grouped under Netflix's name for each parent genre. Type in its filter box to find one.
4. Use Sort to choose A–Z, Z–A, Year, Suggested or IMDb rating. Filter offers type, IMDb rating and runtime.
5. Load more fetches the next set. On Netflix opens the same category on Netflix's own site.

A–Z, Z–A, Year and Suggested are Netflix's own orders, read again from Netflix. IMDb rating reorders what has been read so far, and the status line says so.

The open category shows as a chip with an ×. Press it to close the category.

1:07 VideoNetflix Hidden Categories, Sorted A-ZThe Hidden menu, its filter box, and a category sorted A to Z.

Details and ratings on every result

Opens by itself after a search, a category, or Load more

1. Netflix's search and category pages leave out much of what a card needs. So after each read, TidyWL asks Netflix for each title's year, runtime, seasons and age rating, behind a progress window such as "Reading details — 16 of 48".
2. Press Stop to end early. Titles it did not reach show without those details.
3. It then matches IMDb ratings. Some arrive after the grid is up, and the cards fill in as they land.

Details cost one request to Netflix per title, so they are paced, never asked twice in a session, and never asked for a title in your synced list. A quick read never shows the window at all.

If Netflix starts refusing, TidyWL stops asking for a while and the status line says so, for example "Netflix stopped answering — details are paused for ten minutes".

Add what you find to My List or a playlist

The two buttons on every search and category card · Toolbar → Add to My List and Add to playlist

1. The bookmark on a card (Add to My List) adds that title to your My List on Netflix. It stays lit while the title is in your list. Pressing a lit one removes it, after asking.
2. The other button (Add to a playlist) opens Add to Playlist for that title. Adding to a playlist from here never touches My List.
3. In a category you can select several titles, as on My List, and use Add to My List or Add to playlist in the toolbar.

Adding several titles to My List goes at a steady pace, with a count, and pauses now and then so Netflix keeps answering.

Start Pro, and use it in more than one browser

Header → the plan badge (Free) → About's Pro tab

1. Click Free in the dashboard header. It opens About on its Pro tab. Any control marked Pro opens the plans card instead.
2. Press Upgrade to Pro. Checkout opens on tidywl.com, handled by Paddle.
3. When it is done, Pro switches itself on in that browser. There is no key to copy or paste.
4. The page you land on after paying shows your key. It is not emailed, so keep it somewhere safe.
5. In another browser, open About's Pro tab, press Have a key?, paste the key, check the name under Name this browser, and press Activate.

One key works on up to three browsers. About's Pro tab lists them. Remove beside one frees it, and Deactivate releases the browser you are in.

Manage subscription is where you cancel, change your card or see invoices.

Lost your key? Paste the Transaction ID from any Paddle receipt, the one that starts with txn_, into the same box. Or use Find my key on the key page.

Pro is a key, not an account. There is no password, and TidyWL never learns your email. Paddle takes the payment.

Tonight: one pick and two backups from your list Pro

Header → Tonight · Alt+T on any Netflix page · with Pro, the Pick for me button on Netflix's browse pages

1. Open Tonight. Tap a night you have saved, or Something else to answer three questions, one tap each:
   • Who's watching?: Just me, With a partner, With friends or With family. With family, it asks the youngest viewer's age and leaves out anything rated above it.
   • How long have you got?: Short, A movie or Any length.
   • What mood?: Light, Gripping, Thoughtful, Comfort or Anything.
2. Tonight deals one pick and two backups from My List, each with its reason: the IMDb rating, the runtime, the genre that fits.
3. Press Play to watch the pick. Make it the pick swaps a backup in. Not tonight hides a title for seven days. Re-roll deals three more for the same answers.
4. Save as occasion keeps a night's answers, so next time it is one tap. Just like last time repeats your last answers.

Your answers and picks hold for the evening. The foot says until when, after "Same picks until".

With Surprises from outside My List switched on, Tonight also adds titles from outside your list that fit your mood, each marked as a surprise, and never one you have already watched or given a thumbs down. Switch it off to keep to My List.

Later, on my phone keeps the pick at the top of the TidyWL phone app until 5 am. There is no alert: open the phone app and it is there. It needs mobile sync.

On a Kids profile, Tonight asks two questions, not three.

0:45 VideoWhat to Watch on Netflix Tonight? Let Your Own List DecideWho's watching, how long and the mood, then one pick and two backups.

Undo a removal, for 90 days Pro

The removal summary's Undo · Toolbar → Pro tools → Removal history

1. Right after a removal, the summary offers Undo beside Done. Press it to put that whole run back. If some titles could not be removed, Retry takes its place.
2. Later, press Removal history in the toolbar. It lists what you removed from My List in the last 90 days, newest first.
3. Press Put back on a title, or Put back all on a batch. Or tick several and press Put back at the foot. Search removed titles… finds one.
4. Forget takes the ticked titles off this list, and Empty the list clears it. Neither changes Netflix.

A title you put back goes back on My List, and Netflix puts it at the top.

The history is kept on this device. It does not travel to your other browsers.

Pin a title so nothing removes it Pro

The pin on a card's art · Toolbar → Pro tools → Pin selected

1. Hover a card on My List. A pin appears at the bottom-right of its art. Click it.
2. Or select several titles and press Pin selected. When every selected title is already pinned, the same button unpins them.
3. A pinned card keeps its pin showing. Click the pin again to unpin.

A pinned title survives every removal: a bulk remove you run yourself, a single Remove, the clean-up rules, and Move, which copies it and leaves it in My List. To remove one, unpin it first.

Unpinning never needs Pro, and a pin you already made keeps protecting its title whatever your plan. Filter → Pins is free.

Clean-up rules Pro

Toolbar → Pro tools → the sparkles (Clean-up rules)

Two rules, each one item in the menu. Both only select: you see the list and can untick anything before a title moves. Both move titles into a playlist rather than just removing them, and neither touches a pinned title.

Archive what I've watched

1. Open Clean-up rules and pick Archive what I've watched….
2. The list shows every title you have watched. Untick anything you want to keep.
3. Press Archive. The ticked titles move to a playlist called Watched and leave My List.

Archive what has waited six months

1. Open Clean-up rules and pick Archive what has waited six months….
2. The list shows titles you never started that have sat in My List for six months or more. Untick anything you want to keep.
3. Press Archive. The ticked titles move to a playlist called Someday and leave My List.

Netflix keeps no date on My List, so TidyWL counts six months from the day it first saw each title. When nothing qualifies yet, it says the first date anything could.

Leaving My List is a real removal on Netflix, but nothing is lost: the playlist keeps the titles, and any of them can be added back.

Stats Pro

My List sidebar → Stats

1. The Stats card shows the hours of film still waiting in your list. Click it.
2. Stats opens with Film still to watch, Shows, Watched and Never started.
3. Below them, Added, watched and removed shows what you added against what you watched, month by month.

Netflix keeps no date on My List, so the monthly counts start from your first Sync with Stats in the extension, and grow with each Sync after.

Your playlists on your phone and in your other browsers Pro

Toolbar → Pro tools → Sync to mobile · About's Pro tab

1. Press Sync to mobile in the toolbar. It opens About's Pro tab.
2. Turn on Sync playlists to your phone and other browsers. Do the same in each browser you use, such as Chrome, Brave, another Google account or another computer, with your key active there.
3. Press Pair a phone. Point your phone's camera at the code, or open tidywl.com/netflix/app on the phone and enter the code shown.
4. The phone shows the playlists of every profile you have synced, box art and all. Tap a title and it opens in the Netflix app.

The phone is read-only. Playlists are edited on your computer.

With the switch on, that profile's playlists, with each title's name, year and picture link, and the profile's name, go to tidywl.com. Only from browsers where you switched it on. Your Pro key never reaches your phone.

Sync now beside the status line syncs at once. Each paired phone is listed under Phones with Remove.

Support answered first Pro

About's Pro tab

Questions and feature requests go to support@tidywl.com, the address About's Pro tab shows, and Pro is answered first. Everyone can write there, and About also has Join us on Discord and Thoughts?, which opens an email and copies the address.