Top 10 and discovery

Your Top 10

A Top 10 is a list you keep by hand, one for each shelf: your ten best board games, books, films. Nothing ranks it for you.

Top 10: a short list of your favourites, kept by hand, one for each shelf. Seven is a Top 7.

Ranking: every item on a shelf put in order. Sort a shelf by Your ranking, or press Rank this shelf in View (Shelves).

Tier list: a whole shelf sorted into tiers, best at the top (S, A, B, C and F to start). See Tier lists.

Start with one favourite. You can rank more later.

Open Top 10. It shows each shelf's list as a card. Press a card, or a shelf under No list yet.

Press a pick from your shelf to add it, or use the title field to add a title by hand.

Put them in your order with the arrows, or take one off the list.

Short lists, and what a list offers

A title on the list opens that item's page. On a phone the whole row does, until you press Edit order.

A list with room offers the top three of each smart shelf (a saved set of filters that updates on its own) you have ranked, above the picks from your shelf.

The overview, and the other lists

Top 10 opens on an overview of every shelf's list, a card each with how full it is and its first three. The shelves with no list yet are under No list yet. With one shelf, its list opens at once.

On a wide screen a list's page keeps Your other Top 10s in a column on the right.

The list you pick is in the page's address, so a bookmark opens that same list.

Where your Top 10 shows

It leads your profile, and people most like to share it.

Where other people see your Top 10, your shared note on an item is printed under its title, a good place to say why it made the list.

A Top 10 makes a share card and a link of its own:

see Share links.

Tier lists

A tier list sorts a whole shelf into tiers, best at the top. Every shelf has one, and so does every smart shelf.

Open Tier lists (in the side rail, or in More on a phone). It opens on the shelf you had open last. Choose another shelf there.

Select an item in Unplaced, then select the tier where it belongs.

Repeat for the rest. Changes save on their own.

Only you see your tier list. Edit tiers renames, reorders, adds or removes tiers, from two to seven.

Dragging, and series stacks

Dragging works too. On a phone, hold the item for a moment first. Unplaced is a tray at the foot of the window while anything waits in it, and you scroll or use its arrows to reach the rest.

A series waits in Unplaced as one stack with its count (×6). Tap it to open it to its volumes, place them one by one, and press Close to put the rest back in the stack.

Starting from your ratings or your ranking

A board you have not started offers to start from your ratings (a 9 or higher goes in the top tier, each point lower a tier down) or from your ranking of that shelf. It goes once anything is placed. The options menu has both again later, with Clear the board, and each can be undone.

What a board holds

What you own, what is Not owned (played, read or watched without owning it), and what you have sold. Wishlist and Pre-ordered can be switched on for their items too.

With a keyboard

The board is one stop in the tab order, and the arrows walk it. Enter picks an item up, the arrows move it, and Enter sets it down. 1 to 7 put the item in that tier, and 0 takes it out.

Sharing a tier list

The share button beside Versions (on a phone, Share under the three dots) makes a link to your tier list, with a card for wherever you post it. Unplaced items and items you keep off public pages are not on it.

Saved versions

A version is a copy of a Top 10, a shelf's ranking or a tier list as it stands today. The list carries on; the version never changes.

Save one before a list changes much, and you can look back at what you thought then.

Press Versions on a Top 10, on the Your ranking line over a ranked shelf, or on a tier list.

Give it a title (it starts as today's date) and press Save version.

Open a saved version to read it. A mark beside each item shows how it moved since the version before, and what left the list is named under it.

The plan, the limit and what you keep

Saving a version is part of Supporter, and a list keeps up to 50. Saved versions stay readable, and in your export, whatever your plan is later.

Versions on a list you share

A list shared by link shows its saved versions too. A visitor steps back through them, newest first.

Discover

Discover is what people are enjoying this month, with nobody named and no counts shown, and For you is what is picked for you.

Discover is the first row of the shelf picker. It also sits in the sidebar on a computer, and in More on a phone.

How Trending counts

Trending is what is making people happy or energized this month, and what is played most. Press an item that is not yours to see what its catalogue says about it.

It names nobody and shows no counts. An item appears only once at least three different people have logged it.

When everything trending is already yours

All of it already yours? Discover opens on Not on my shelf, or, with nothing there, stays on Any and says so.

The filters, and the page's address

Trending's options (the sort, the shelf, My shelves only) sit over the list. On a phone the rest open from the Filters button. Clear all puts everything back as the page opens, and the page's address keeps what you picked.

For you

For you says where its list comes from. While your tastes take shape it is a few starter picks. Once enough people have logged on your shelves, it is what they felt best about after their sessions, and when some of them log like you, it is what those people enjoyed. None of it comes from anyone's ratings, and nobody is named.

Anything you find opens with a way to put it on your shelf or your wishlist.

Pick for me

Pick for me is for the evening you cannot decide. It rolls a die over what you own and hands you one item, with the reason it was picked. Press Pick for me on the Discover page, or G then 8.

The chips tilt the odds rather than filter, so there is always a pick. With a group chosen, it only picks what the table can play. In a series, it picks only the first volume you have not read.

The button shows once you own five items.