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Bundle Management

A topic by Karl Drinkwater created Jul 13, 2022 Views: 384 Replies: 2
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Hi,

I've tried searching for posts about this but am still a bit stuck!

I want to be able to browse anything I own but haven't played in one place (a collection being logical), and remove it from the list once I have played it. At that point I may add it to one of my permanent collections if I really love it.

I have quite a few big bundles!

So I created a collection called "things to play" and decided to go through each bundle adding each item to that collection. Then I would just dip in every so often, and remove things after downloading them. It would enable me to be sure of what I have played and what I haven't. (I had first tried just playing through things on each bundle page, but I lost track before long of what I had and hadn't played, and seemed to waste more time trying to work it out, a problem that would just get worse over time.)

So I opened a bundle, and tried adding each item to my collection. Some items have an "add to collection" option when I hover over the icon, which is a bit quicker, but for most I have to open the game in a separate tab, add to collection, close the tab, maybe doing groups of five.

Hours later, I had only tackled a part of the smaller bundles. I could see this would take days to add the bigger ones!

So, is there any shortcut or script or trick I could use, in the absence of UI options to do this? I know people sometimes ask for an "add to library" button for bundles, but even if that existed it wouldn't really be what I am after - that would put everything in one huge collection, both things I've played and things I haven't. That would only work if there was a Hide option, so I could hide things I have played. (That's what I do with GOG and Steam - everything in one huge set, but I just hide items as I play them; super simple, and anything worth playing again gets put into a special collection). Without that, the only way I can work through stuff in Itch is to have it in its own collection, from which I can remove things as I play them.

So, any advice as to how I can do this would be appreciated! It's the fact that I want to add everything  from a bundle to a _collection_ without 20,000 clicks that perhaps complicates things!

(And if ever there is an option to add everything from a bundle into the library in one go, AND then hide individual items as you play them, that would be great, and would work as an alternative system.)

Many thanks.

(The other advantage of having all the games in a single folder/collection: it will make it so much easier when I see an offer on a game elsewhere! "Do I own Pikuniku/Nuclear Throne/Celeste already?" I can check a few games quickly in one place, rather than browsing bundles or the Itch store.)

Oh well, I did it the long way, and manually added 4,500 items to my "Not Played" collection. :-(

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