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Where Can I Watch? 1.4.0: Today, and Detail Pages Everywhere

Where Can I Watch? 1.4.0 is out, and it’s one of the bigger releases since launch. Two ideas drove most of the work: making Today its own top-level tab, and giving Episode Detail a consistent home in every place in the app where you might tap into an episode.

When 1.3.0 shipped, the plan I wrote for 1.4.0 was a detail-page overhaul:

  • content rating badges,
  • runtime,
  • on-your-services callouts,
  • and person search.

The more I continued to use the app, the more it was clear the foundation for those enhancements wasn’t quite in place yet:

  • Episode Detail only opened from one corner of the app,
  • Today was still a pinned section inside Watchlist,
  • and the streaming service name, the whole point of the app, was missing from a few places a user would most want it.

1.4.0 puts those foundations in place. The detail-page enhancements will be in 1.5.0, built on top of everything in this release.


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How To Back Up Claude Settings With rclone

Lately, I’ve been using Claude pretty heavily more than other LLMs. Over time, I’ve accumulated settings, plugins, and various configurations that I don’t want to lose. If I ever set up a new machine, I want to be able to restore those settings without rebuilding everything from scratch.

So I set up a backup system using rclone and Google Drive (though you can use any cloud provider of your choice with rclone).


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Where Can I Watch? 1.3.0: A Clarity Pass

Where Can I Watch? 1.3.0 is out, and this one is less about new features and more about making controls that have been in the app since launch easier to find and easier to trust.

When 1.2.0 shipped, I wrote that 1.3.0 was going to be a detail-page overhaul. But the more I used the app, the more I noticed another set of issues specifically around the filtering controls in the Services tab. They’ve been there since 1.0.0, but they’re buried far too low beneath the list of streaming service providers. So I shifted gears. The detail-page work moved to 1.4.0, and 1.3.0 became a clarity pass on the filtering experience across Search and Trending.


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