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Tracking

Tracking keeps your list on a tracking site up to date as you read. Tsugi supports MyAnimeList.

The Tracking section appears in More > Settings when this build of Tsugi offers a tracker.

Signing in#

  1. Open More > Settings > Tracking.
  2. Under Trackers, tap Sign in next to MyAnimeList.
  3. Your browser opens MyAnimeList's sign-in page. While you sign in there, Tsugi shows "Waiting for the browser. Finish signing in there, then switch back to Tsugi", and a notification lets you jump back.
  4. Approve the sign-in and switch back. The row now says Signed in as your name.

If sign-in is not finished in the browser within five minutes, start again. If Tsugi says "Another app is using port N on this device", close that app (the sign-in needs the port for a moment to hear back from the browser) and sign in again. Sign out stops Tsugi from sending progress; your list on MyAnimeList stays as it is.

Linking an entry#

  1. Open the entry's page and tap the Tracking button in the header.
  2. Tap Add tracking for MyAnimeList.
  3. Search, then tap the right result.

If the search finds nothing, try another title (romanized, English, or shorter). You can also look the series up on MyAnimeList and search for id: followed by the number in its address, or search your own list with my: followed by part of the title.

Once linked, the tracking sheet shows the entry's Status, Chapters, Score, Start date and Finish date on MyAnimeList. Tap any of them to change it. Copy link copies the entry's MyAnimeList address.

To unlink, remove the tracking from the sheet. Remove MyAnimeList tracking? removes the link in Tsugi; tick Also remove from MyAnimeList to delete the entry from your list there as well.

What Tsugi sends#

Tracking goes one way, from Tsugi to MyAnimeList, except when you run a comparison (below).

  • Update progress after reading (More > Settings > Tracking): when you finish a chapter in the reader, its number is sent to the entry's trackers.
  • Update progress when marked as read: Always, Ask or Never for chapters you mark as read by hand. With Ask, Tsugi offers Update trackers to chapter N? after you mark them.
  • Only progress forward is sent. Reading an earlier chapter again changes nothing on the tracker.
  • The first chapter sent sets the status to Reading. Reaching the last chapter the tracker knows sets it to Completed, with today as the finish date.
  • Without a connection, the update waits and is sent once you are online ("Updating trackers to chapter N").

In the library, the Tracked filter and the Tracker score sort use your trackers. See Library and categories.

Compare with MyAnimeList#

Reading on several apps or devices can leave MyAnimeList and Tsugi disagreeing. More > Settings > Tracking > Compare with MyAnimeList finds those entries and lets you choose, entry by entry, which side to keep. Nothing changes until you confirm.

If sync is set up, Tsugi first syncs with your other devices ("Syncing with your other device"), so their reading counts. Then it reads your MyAnimeList list and checks each tracked library entry. The result is grouped:

  • MyAnimeList is ahead: you read further there. Choose Mark as read in the app (the chapters in between are marked read here and on your other devices after they sync; downloads are kept), or Set MyAnimeList back to chapter N, or Don't change.
  • The app is ahead: choose Update MyAnimeList to chapter N or Don't change. When an update is already waiting to be sent, Keep MyAnimeList at chapter N cancels it instead.
  • Not on your MyAnimeList list: the entry was removed there. Add it back (with its old status, score and dates), Remove tracking (in the app only, on both your devices), or leave it.
  • Can't compare: for example the entry has no chapters yet, or its chapters have no numbers Tsugi can read. You can still set MyAnimeList by hand from the entry's tracking button.

Some rows carry a warning, for example when MyAnimeList counts chapters differently ("Numbers may not match"), shows a reread, or when Tsugi has no reading history for a chapter marked read. Keep the higher number answers every row without a warning at once; rows with a warning are left for you. Don't change any sets every row back to leaving both sides as they are.

Tsugi cannot move your reading position in the app backwards for you. When the app is ahead because you marked chapters read by mistake, mark them unread on the entry's page.

After you confirm (Apply N changes?), Tsugi applies them one by one and reports Done, Changed since you compared and Failed counts. Compare again runs a fresh comparison.

Sign-in and privacy#

  • The MyAnimeList sign-in is stored on this device only. Sync never carries it.
  • A backup includes it only when you tick Private settings while creating the backup. Without it, a restored device shows MyAnimeList as signed out, and you sign in again.
  • If MyAnimeList stops accepting the sign-in ("The tracker no longer accepts this device's sign-in"), tap Sign in again in the Tracking settings.