For a while now, my wife has been suggesting I try out an app called Sofa, which is a …collection management app? Maybe that’s not the right term.  The author calls it a “downtime organizer”, and it’s a tool to let you… slack off in the most optimized fashion?  Does that seem wrong to anyone else?

Anyway, I had put it on the deep back burner of things I should look into when I got some time, and then I got hit by a massive RIF and suddenly I have nothing but time.

So I finally downloaded it, and it’s pretty peak.

It’s a one-man effort that somehow still manages to give you a fully cross-platform application (iPhone, iPad, Mac and apparently even Vision Pro) that, well, lets you make lists of stuff you want to do when you have free time and a log book to let you know when you’ve done the stuff you wanted to do.

It’s been a pretty busy day of goofing off.

My only real gripe about the logbook is that I haven’t found a way to say, for example, which episodes of a given program I’ve watched.  I just have to say “I watched some of this” and rely on Crunchyroll to know where I left off.  Which is fine, I suppose.

This is OK, but not crazy great.  Where it gets good is when you start filling up your lists of “I want to play / watch / read / listen to / check out”, because the database this pulls from is pretty amazing.  Like, I have some pretty weird stuff on my backlog and Sofa found almost all of it and built these great visual shelves for me to scroll through.

Like, one of the things I was looking up was “Densha de go” and the search results were like, “which of these twenty different versions of DDG do you mean?”

I haven’t started populating the other shelves yet, so I’m not certain how good the databases are for books, music, and apps… but I’m pretty confident that they’ll serve me just as well.

My only complaint is that the premium features of the app are locked behind a subscription, rather than letting me pay outright.  Still, the free version seems to do everything I want so far and the subscription seems pretty inexpensive if I outgrow it.