Tracking progress with Ryot
Sometimes I wish for a centralized, automatically updated and moderately fancy-looking application to keep track of multiple activities; mostly around digital media.
- Audiobookshelf is pretty good but separates podcasts from books and only shows yearly summary at the end of the year. Audible does not offer even that, and no export options.
- Jellyfin (and previously Plex) don't go beyond marking things as "done". Besides, movies and TV shows are not the kind of videos I'm intersted in tracking progress with; video lectures are (where was I with this Inkscape course?).
- Paper books are very nearly not even a thing anymore, but it would still be nice to be able to track progress on them, as well as reading e-Books in Komga.
- Video games are absurdly difficult to track progress for. Naturally grown from need,
a spreadsheet is works well enough to collect data across multiple platforms, but
it is limited, ugly and increasing slow as the library grows.
- Steam shows only total and recent (last 2 weeks) gameplay, and probress is tracked in terms of achievements, not how close you are to finish the main story. At least there is the option to query the Steam Web API to periodically fetch gameplay stats, so they can be kept at a higher resolution (daily, hourly, etc.).
- Nintendo Switch Parental Control (Android app). shows only gameplay time per game (and per user) in the current month, after that it shows only montly summaries. There is no option to export any of this.
- GOG requires installing their own (Windows-only) Galaxy 2.0 client and the possiblity of exporting or even seeing your personal gameplay stats appears to be not even a question.
Looking around for tracking applications in the awesome directory of awesome-selfhosted, two applications look promising and worth a try: Ryot and Yamtrack.