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How to use Trailer Vision
Navigation
The top bar is on every page: App, Watchlist (global saved titles), Channels, Settings, Help. Ratings is a separate page (not in the bar) with Seen / Watchlist / Not interested tabs.
Main screen
You get a title with poster or trailer, plot, and Rotten Tomatoes when available. The rating strip is one line: Seen it (red stars, half-star steps) — one tap submits if you've seen it — then Not yet (if you haven't) and Next to skip without saving. After Not yet, blue stars rate interest; use I have seen it to go back. Unseen: high blue stars add the title to your watchlist; low stars mark not interested. The app learns from your history and suggests new titles.
Recommendations come from a language model judging content similarityto what you've liked — not from "people who watched this also watched" collaborative filtering. Trailers autoplay. Tick Auto and hit Fullscreen to sit back and watch hands-free — each trailer advances to the next when it ends.
Looking for something specific? The Search box (above the channel list) drops results straight into the queue and starts playing — type a title, an actor, or just a vibe. It checks the movie database first (great for exact or brand-new titles), then falls back to the language model for moods and genres.
Channels
Create filters (genres, era, language, format, streaming service, etc.) so recommendations stay on-topic. Pick a channel from the chips on the main page. Each channel is its own recommendation island: its own prefetch queue (upcoming titles) and its own saved ratings, so the same film can end up with different stars in different channels when you're judging it under different taste lenses. Switching channels saves the old queue and restores the new one. Editing a channel and saving clears its queue, so the next titles reflect the new definition. When you create a channel, just describe what you want — the first few words become the channel name automatically.
The Streamingfilter restricts a channel to titles available on the services you pick (Netflix, Amazon Prime, Apple TV+, Disney+, HBO Max, Hulu, Paramount+, Peacock). The starter pack includes a ready-made channel for each of the major streamers. Want to browse what's on your subscriptions? Select the service and let the trailers roll.
The bundled Coming Soonchannel is special: instead of the AI, it pulls genuinely new and upcoming titles straight from TMDB (coming attractions in theatres and on streaming). Because these aren't films you've seen, it hides star ratings, time-period and actor filters — you just browse trailers. Filter it by genre, language, format (movies / TV series), and streaming service (e.g. only show what's new on Netflix).
Graph
Below the player, a Constellations graph maps connections between the current title and its actors, director, and related films. It expands as you explore. Tap Open full screen for the standalone view.
Upcoming queue
Below the rating area you'll see titles waiting in line. The app refills in the background but keeps the buffer modest (on the order of a handful of cards) so new ratings affect upcoming picks sooner. Click a row to jump to that title now; Remove drops it without playing. The list is stored per channel and can be included when you export a backup in Settings.
Settings
Choose trailers vs posters and which LLM to use — DeepSeek or Custom to bring your own: point it at any OpenAI-compatible endpoint (OpenRouter, Together, Groq, or a local Ollama / LM Studio server) with a base URL, model name, and optional key. That key stays in your browser. Global request adds free-text instructions for every recommendation. Export / Import saves your data as JSON (channels, queues, history, etc.); import overwrites only keys present in the file. Reset clears everything.
Your data
No login, no accounts, no ads. Everything — ratings, watchlist, channels, taste profile — lives in your browser's local storage, not on a server. When your queue runs low, your ratings are sent to the language model so it can pick the next batch, but nothing is kept server-side afterward: it's stateless, more like an early chat session than a platform building a permanent profile of you. Use Export in Settings to back up or move your data between browsers.
Some titles show a Rent or buylink to Amazon. It's an affiliate link — if you rent or buy after clicking, the site may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. It appears only for titles Amazon actually offers for rent or purchase.
Other pages
- Watchlist — Full-page view of your global watchlist (same data as Ratings → Watchlist): any channel can add titles here. Remove (×) moves a title to not interested and skipped.
- Ratings — Three tabs: Seen (your stars and signed delta vs the AI, with sorting; click a row to re-rate on the home page), Watchlist, and Not interested.
- Channels — Define filters per channel and open Channel history: seen rows match Ratings → Seen (delta + sort); unseen rows show blue-star interest and pills (Added / Not on list for saves, Not interested for passes). Add to watchlist uses a minimum interest threshold and adds titles not already on your global watchlist (high-interest skips and removed saves you want back). Create or delete channels here. Select rows in a history list and hit Play to queue them up and watch them back-to-back as a playlist.
For developers
Internal notes and the original build prompts live on separate pages (not needed for day-to-day use).