Lists on Kitazo: creating them, ranking them, writing them together

Where lists live

From your profile, the My lists card. It has three tabs: Mine, with the lists you created and those you collaborate on; Saved, with other people's public lists you bookmarked; Discover, with the public lists the community has saved most.

Creating a list

Create list asks for a name, an optional description and whether the list is public. A list is born private: only you see it until you decide otherwise. It can hold up to five hundred titles, films and series mixed.

Titles are added in two ways. From the list, with Add title: you search, tap as many as you like and confirm them together. Or from a title's page, in the three-dots menu, with Add to list: your lists appear, and from there you can also create a new one on the spot. A title sits in a list only once.

Turning it into a ranking

The list menu has Make it a ranking. From then on the titles are numbered, and Edit ranking lets you move them up and down: the position is the ranking, and every move saves right away. The list shows a Ranking chip. Remove the ranking turns it back into a plain list without losing anything.

The banner

Every list has a picture at the top. Change banner offers three routes: Upload from gallery, a photo of yours; Auto (posters), a collage Kitazo builds from the titles' artwork; From titles in this list, to pick one title's poster in particular.

Public or private

Make public and Make private change who sees it. A public list shows on your profile, where anyone can open and save it, and can reach Discover if enough people save it. If your profile is private, your public lists are seen only by people who follow you. A private list is seen by you and, if you have any, your collaborators.

Other people's public lists are saved with Save: they go to your Saved tab, and the save count under the list's name grows. Saving a list doesn't copy it: if the author changes it, you see the new version.

Writing it together

Invite collaborator opens the list of people you and they follow each other: only they can be invited. Whoever receives the invite finds it under Collaboration invites on the lists screen and accepts or declines. A collaborator adds and removes titles, reorders the ranking and changes the banner like you do; they can't delete the list or invite others. You can remove a collaborator whenever you like, and a collaborator can leave.

If you unfollow someone you share a list with, the app reminds you first: the list stays with whoever created it. Someone who deletes their account disappears from the lists they collaborated on, which stay with their authors.

Sharing a list

Share prepares a text with the list's name and its titles one per line, signed "via Kitazo", and hands it to the phone's share sheet; on the web it copies it to the clipboard. It is text, not a link: lists have no public page on the site, so whoever receives it reads the titles, but to see the live list they have to open Kitazo and find your profile.

Editing and deleting

Edit list changes the name and description. A title is removed from its row, with a confirmation. Delete list deletes it for good, for you and your collaborators; the titles inside are untouched in your library, because a list is only a set of pointers.

Lists that come from elsewhere

An import brings lists too, when the file holds them: TV Time's, Trakt's with their visibility, Sofa Time's and Letterboxd's, which arrive private because the file doesn't say whether they were public. Running the import again updates the same list instead of making a copy. A Kitazo backup restores them exactly, visibility included.