Netflix queue management ideas

Netflix queue management ideas
You and your queue.

I have a "wish list" of movies I want to see, and I'm constantly adding to that. I gradually transfer titles from this list into my Netflix queue. Now either I could always add new movies to the top of the list or the bottom of the list as I hear about then, but either way isn't fair, and I didn't want to drop them in randomly since there's never a way to ensure you're being random. Well, actually there is. I just alphabetized the original list (Thanks, Excel), and I always add in new titles alphabetically. I've worked my way up to the letter "L" at this point (i.e., about half-way), but it takes months to get very far through more than three or four letters since my list is so long (i.e., it's >200 titles at the moment). However, I'm also picking up dvds from the library from time to time, so sometimes I get to "skip ahead. "

Occasionally I'll bump up a few things such as "The Nightmare Before Xmas" or "Rocky Horror" around Halloween, but the main goal in alphabetizing the list is that I never know what I'm going to get from one day to the next. Sometimes I'll get something that's almost a new release, whereas other times I'll get something that's really old and has been on my list to see since even before I was on Netflix. It keeps me from sort of jumping the gun and only going with things I *know* I want to see. If I only went after movies I knew I was going to like (or at least what to expect), I wouldn't ever have any surprises, and the reason I watch movies is because I like surprises.

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