Every film you open, by day and part of day (morning / afternoon-evening / night), kept only in this browser. Searchable; add in:history to any search to restrict it to films you've looked at.

a:*_film (Wikidata genre mirrors) and a:*_scene (single-scene tags) are always excluded. Anything you add here applies on top. The command's own --exclude overrides this default. Space-separated. * wildcard works anywhere.

How many films to return for match and co-anchor results. Range 5–200. Default 30.

Default complete-linkage cosine cutoff for cluster. Range 0–1.

A filter automatically appended to every search — e.g. sc:3 (only ★3+), y:1980-2000, or both. An explicit filter you type overrides it. Shows as a pill in the search box; leave blank to disable.

Which services count as "streaming" for the Streaming link. A film available only on unchecked services shows the link as empty and white; a film on checked services has it filled in. In either case you must visit TMDB to see which services (they are a good site worth supporting!).

Long film summaries are truncated to ~400 characters with a “more” link. Check this to show them fully expanded by default.

Director and cast always show; writer, cinematography, music and box office are tucked behind a “more crew” link. Check this to show all of it by default.

Show assembled Style & tropes descriptions at the bottom of a film’s tags page.

The app silently adds some patterns to every query (e.g. a:*_film Wikidata mirrors, a:*_scene single-scene tags, a:tspdt1000, a:deep_todo). These are normally hidden from the search box and result headers — only what you typed is shown. Check this to reveal those global query adds in the displayed --exclude string.

Rare hand-produced research pages (podcast notes) exist for a few films. When on, an rnotes ↗ link joins the Wikipedia · IMDB · Trailer row on those films.

Adds an Available to stream filter to Favorites for your selected services. Available for collections of 42 films or fewer.

Shows the ? (explain) and T (tags) buttons on film cards. On by default.

Shows the ✕ (hide this film from all searches) button on film cards. Off by default; already-hidden films stay manageable via the excluded-films view.

Rank matches by IDF² instead of IDF — sharpens the pull of rare shared tags. While on, negative focus is disabled. Mirrors the ranking dropdown on match pages.

Wikidata (*_film) and OMDb (*_omdb) genre mirror tags duplicate the canonical genre signal. When on (default), they are neither weighted in rankings nor shown on cards. Turn off to include and display them.

twist_ending_* tags name what kind of twist a film's ending has, so the tag itself is a spoiler. Hide keeps them out of all tag displays (they still work in search, matching, and =films-with); Redact shows them blurred until clicked; Show displays them like any other tag.

Films available from the Criterion Collection (tagged ea:criterion). When on, their cards are surrounded by a 5px red border.

Scores genre + tone by agreement instead of rarity — a shared genre/tone rewards, a mismatch counts against (e.g. a comedy won't match a tonally-opposite noir just because they share a plot premise). Each Ranking preset sets this: 0.5 on plot+ (the default), 1.5 on balanced, 2.5 on style+; higher = stronger pull toward same-genre/tone, 0 = off (genre/tone revert to ordinary IDF weighting). You can also set it by hand here.

Applies to every ranking (Plot, Style, Balanced): subtracts strength × (#unshared tags) ÷ (avg IDF of those tags), so a candidate with lots of extra/missing tags ranks lower (favors proportionally-similar films and remakes). 4 = default, higher = stricter, 0 = off.

Boost English-language films in similarity / Balanced rankings (no effect when you sort by year or rating). 0 off (default) · 1 +25% · 2 +50% · 3 +100% · 4 English only (hides non-English from results). Override per search with en:0…en:4.