Tracking your collection - On-line? Software? Custom?

[marurun]

Folks, how do you track your collection? Do you keep it all in your head? Do you use an on-line service or downloaded software? An app? Google Sheets? MS Access?

I've been using VGCollect, in part because I can export my collection to CSV, but maybe there's a better service to use I haven't considered. Maybe one of you has the One Ring of collection management and we all must bow down to your methodology. Share, folks, share and share alike!

[Ack]

Folks, how do you track your collection? Do you keep it all in your head? Do you use an on-line service or downloaded software? An app? Google Sheets? MS Access?

I've been using VGCollect, in part because I can export my collection to CSV, but maybe there's a better service to use I haven't considered. Maybe one of you has the One Ring of collection management and we all must bow down to your methodology. Share, folks, share and share alike!

RFGeneration and Backloggery have both worked for me, while specific subsets of my collection I track in spreadsheets, Google Docs, and with paper documents at home(seriously). I know Exhuminator uses HowLongtoBeat for his personal tracker because he appreciates the time features.

[isiolia]

I haven't kept up with updating it in a while - mostly due to cooling my buying habits - but at one point I was using RFGeneration, and could/should still go update it.

Exception is PC games, which I haven't really tracked, though with the majority of them being in Steam anyway it's not really an issue.

[ElkinFencer10]

Like Ack, I use RF Generation and Backloggery. I use the former for tracking my physical collection and the latter for tracking what's beaten and what's not as well as digital games.

[marlowe221]

My method is so lo-fi that I am almost embarassed to tell anyone what it is.

I have individual Notepad txt files for each console that I own. Each file is just a plain text list of the games that I own for that system. I keep all the files in the same folder.

It's lame but it works for me. But my physical collection(s) are pretty small by collector standards. I might have 60-ish Atari 2600 carts? That's my biggest library for any console I own.

[marurun]

Yeah, outside of Steam and random non-Steam PC games, my largest collection is the Genesis with 36 games and the NES with 35 games. Well, that I've recorded so far. I think my Dreamcast and Sega Saturn collections are actually larger, but I haven't recorded any of those, yet. Of course, Steam libraries these days balloon ridiculously.

[BoneSnapDeez]

RFGeneration all the way.

They're quick to accept user submissions and their classification system is just as specific and pedantic as I am (for instance, there are separate categories for Steam, GOG.com, and regular ol' PC).

[marurun]

OK, I have recorded everything.
My largest single collection is the Saturn, with 57 total games (NA and JPN). Second place is Dreamcast with 42 (NA only).

[ExedExes]

RFG because it's just awesome and any edits to game information that need to be fixed are approved fast. Plus they have a mobile app that lets you scan the barcode off the game box/case for fast adding (just like Videogame Price Charts' app)

I really fell behind on single-handedly building their entire GOG database, however. Nearly all the games in my library weren't even there, and one of the moderators truly appreciated all the new arrivals I brought.

[CFFJR]

I keep it all in my head. For what I own already that is. I update individual lists by system for the games I want to pick up.

Or at least I used to. Those lists went kaput along with a ton of other stuff when my hard drive crapped out a few months back, and I don't remember every game that was on them. Haven't bothered since.

Years ago I started putting everything into rfgeneration, but I stopped at something like 150 games. It's painfully tedious to start from scratch when you have a thousand something games...

So I should get around to actually finishing that, but its really unlikely.