
BlogAugust 26, 2026
Import from Everywhere
by Zacharyscene from The Shining
The import room has a third door now: Everything else. Letterboxd and TV Time have had their own for a while; this one takes the rest. Wherever you kept your watch life, the years you put into it are still yours, and Queuebrick reads the export you already have.
What it reads
- Trakt. Drop the data-export zip in whole. History, watchlist, and ratings come across, riding the tmdb and imdb ids when the export carries them and plain title-and-year when it doesn't.
- Simkl. The CSV backup as it stands: completed arrives watched and dated, watching and plan-to-watch join the queue, dropped stays off the shelf.
- IMDb. Ratings and watchlist exports both work, matched by their tt-ids. Your 1-to-10 verdicts carry over exactly, rating dates into the diary.
- Serializd. It never shipped an export, but the community built one, and its JSON drops straight in: shows, ratings, and diary dates find their shelves.
- The long tail. MovieLens ratings arrive with their stars doubled onto the 10-point scale. iCheckMovies comes through on its IMDb ids. Criticker's 0-to-100 scores step down to tenths. TMDB's own CSVs match by id. Even your Netflix viewing history counts: films land watched with their dates, and series land in your queue.
- Anything with a title column. No recognized dialect? Any CSV or JSON that carries titles gets a best effort, with year, type, ratings, dates, and ids riding along when they're present.
Files are read in your browser; only the matched titles reach your library. Anything you've already tracked here is kept. Imports never overwrite. The longer version of the pitch lives at queuebrick.com/everything-else.
Quick note on the roadmap
A lot of our social features are built out but have just been waiting for more users. Now that we have more users, here's what's coming:
- Full review and discussion functionality
- Better trending, activity, and across-Queuebrick functionality
- Fully revamped profiles with better customization
- A near Reddit-style list and posting functionality for Recommendations
See you on the shelf.