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macthekat

A lot of people like to do monthly book wrap up posts. It would be really neat to have an easy way to see what you read in a month. So like the stats page (or on the stats page) just a list of the titles you read. Or even better the covers of what you read that month

UPDATE by Nadia (23/06/24): Updated the title to fit what's being delivered!

UPDATE by Nadia (1/07/24):

There'll be three varieties:

  1. A cover collage (with and without ratings)
  2. A summary view, similar to our annual wrap-up, in (IG Story and IG post/square format), with two pages/sections: overall summary view and stats charts view
  3. A calendar/Gantt chart view
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Nadia
Sep 2, 2024
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The two-page square/grid format of the summary view is now out, wrapping up V1 of our monthly wrap-up graphics. Just in time for your August wrap-ups! :-D

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tuftymctavish
Sep 2, 2024

Nadia Oh, I do love the extra detail added in the two-page flavour. Very sexy indeed!! I ❤️📊 🤓

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Nadia
Sep 2, 2024

tuftymctavish Haha, so glad you love it!!

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alva_seal
Sep 1, 2024

An idea for improvement: Align the rows in the cover collage as the current version looks a bit unaesthetic because of different ratios of the picures adding app row to row. See my August one attached.

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Nadia
Sep 2, 2024

alva_seal I'm using the same cover collage algorithm we use everywhere, namely in the annual wrap-up, so sometimes the bottom is out of line, but it means all covers of different shapes and sizes fit together like a puzzle. Thank your for your feedback though. I may look into possible adjustments later on.

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super_jane19
Sep 1, 2024

I’m loving the new monthly wrap ups. The only thing I don’t like about the calendar is that it overlaps books that you finished on the same day so you cannot see both books.

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Nadia
Sep 2, 2024

super_jane19 Intentional decision after a bunch of experimentation, hence the key, but thank you for the feedback. Will play again with V2!

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Nadia
Aug 7, 2024

Hi everyone! Soft launching the calendar graphic here! Check it out.

Later this month the grid/square version of the summary view will drop!

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debbilynn42
Aug 7, 2024

Nadia looks awesome! A quick bug report that when 2 book images are on the same day.....One completed and one DNF.... my DNF book was on the bottom but the DNF label was on the top with my completed book picture in the middle. A bit confusing since it looks like my completed book was the DNF book. This example is in my July 3, 2024 data.

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tuftymctavish
Aug 8, 2024

Nadia I do like the little 🏆 to indicate the best reading day of the month. Just noticed that little detail 🤓

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Nadia
Aug 8, 2024

debbilynn42 Ooh, this is very helpful, thank you. Will fix this today.

It doesn't happen all of the time but I've got a way so that it should never happen.

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Nadia
Aug 9, 2024

debbilynn42 Fixed! You might need to add a book to your to-read or do some other reading activity if you haven't since to force your graphics to update!

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allisomethings
Aug 10, 2024

Nadia I really like this feature, as I like to see how the books I read overlap, and how my mood reading evolves over the month.

However, I don't log pages read every day; I only use start and stop dates. My books only get logged on the calendar for the days I begin or finish them. It would be neat if each book's duration line included all the calendar days between my start and stop date, even if I don't log pages read.

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Nadia
Aug 11, 2024

allisomethings Hello! Thank you from the feedback! It was intentionally done this way, heavily influenced by our customer research, and to change it to show a line through all days loses the detailed data for daily trackers (who were the most keen for the calendar template). They want to see when they put a book down for days, then come back to it, days where they don't pick up a book at all, etc. We may have a customisation option in the future for people who don't track daily, but it's not a priority at the moment. In the meantime, I hope that you still enjoy the visual that is generated!

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onthesamepage
Aug 11, 2024

Nadia I came here to ask about this as well! I do track daily but I know plenty of people who don't, and having a setting where people can indicate if they want the line to be broken or unbroken depending on daily tracking would be really cool.

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Nadia
Aug 11, 2024

onthesamepage I think this is a great candidate for a new post! Because it's definitely not going to be done as part of the V1 one work. :-D

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jaina8851
Aug 12, 2024

Nadia Really digging the new chart!! One tiny piece of feedback: I'd love something that distinguishes "day I started a book" vs "day I picked it back up". Right now every "start" event is a rounded ( on the left side of the bar, and with my calendar, I can find it hard to read.

In this pic, the green arrow is pointing to a day where I really did start the book (and binged it all in a few days, so no gap in the bar). For the yellow arrows, it's pointing to the bars on the first day of the month, even though I'm pretty sure both of those books got started in the previous month, and pointing out a book that has multiple bars visible but it still is a book I know I started in the previous month. Maybe having true "start" days stay as rounded and "pick up" days be flat ends, like the "put down" ends are on the other end of the bar, if that makes sense? The "true end" of the reading is clear because of the connection with the cover art, but the starts are ambiguous and with enough simultaneous reading 🫣 it can be a little confusing.

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Nadia
Aug 13, 2024

jaina8851 Yes, my friend Saron helped me with the design and did it like that. I went back and forth on whether I liked it and decided to stick with it, but may change it.

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jaina8851
Aug 15, 2024

Nadia I just reloaded my August chart and noticed a small change! 😄 It looks so nice!! So much easier for me to parse 🤩

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Nadia
Jul 27, 2024

Hi everyone!

Soft launching — by only announcing here — a new monthly wrap-up section in the app (accessible via a month's stats page) AND a new template/graphic: The IG Story/Vertical version of the summary view!

Oh AND launching on desktop!

Enjoy!

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aftereliza
Jul 27, 2024

Nadia Thank you for all your hard work! I’m trying to test it out but I keep getting this message.

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waterthepages
Jul 27, 2024

aftereliza Nadia I second this! (Using an Android)

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tuftymctavish
Jul 27, 2024

Nadia Just gave it another go and, ohhhh boy, that is a super sexy new feature!!! Immediately went, “oooOOoooOOO,” out loud just now 😁

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galaheadh
Jul 27, 2024

Nadia Thank you so much for putting this out on desktop!

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Nadia
Jul 28, 2024

waterthepages aftereliza Sorry, both. That was when the feature was still behind an admin block!

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galaheadh
Jul 4, 2024

It would be great if comms about this feature specified that it's available only on the app - I'm a desktop only user and it was disappointing to look forward to it, not be able to find it in my stats and discover it was app only through kestrellady's comment here. I don't mind it being only on the app, but I'd like to have known!

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Nadia
Jul 6, 2024

galaheadh In all the comms I've sent so far, apart from here (will rectify going forward), I've mentioned that you have to be in the app to access these. I'm currently working on offering the ability to download the images via desktop too.

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kestrellady
Jul 1, 2024

A couple quick thoughts/suggestions for future iterations of the monthly graphics:

  • Could this be possible to get from the desktop site? I don't usually use Instagram for this kind of thing, but I'd love to share it to my blog and it's a little awkward trying to figure out how to do that from the app. (Let me know if this already exists and I've just completely missed how to do this!)
  • I'm also struggling a little with screen where the graphic. This might be an edge case because I've got 29 books for the month and it makes the graphic pretty long. I can scroll down, but it doesn't let me scroll back up, so I can't get to the share button once I've scrolled down. Instead, trying to scroll up refreshes the page. I'm in the android app on an S23.
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Nadia
Jul 2, 2024

kestrellady The second bullet is a known Android bug, which affects other aspects of the app, with pull-to-refresh sensitivity. I will eventually fix it—and have attempted to do so in the pass to no success—but for now you can swipe backwards to get out of it after scrolling down (or keep pulling to refresh). Sorry about this. As to your first point, we may provide the graphics on the desktop site!

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aftereliza
Jul 1, 2024

I'm really excited about the developments! I've already shared the cover collage with ratings as part of my 2024 6 month check in post, but based on the data in StoryGraph (using the total ages read entry in the reading journal per book, I created this Gantt chart animation (available here: https://www.instagram.com/p/C83xtVjgi9e/?img_index=10 and https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/18538521/).

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Nadia
Jun 29, 2024

Second template is out now: monthly cover collages with ratings superimposed.

Next up: Summary graphic à la our annual wrap-up one.

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toopunkrockforshul
Jun 28, 2024

Really love this concept, the current ones already look great!! I was wondering if it would be possible to have an option to exclude "not a book" items from the wrap up graphics. I use that feature to give myself credit for fanfic that I read, but I feel like that I don't always want to include those if I'm sharing on social media, for various reasons. Also they typically don't have cover art, so doesn't look so great with the cover collage.

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Nadia
Jun 29, 2024

toopunkrockforshul This will probably be handled when we give the option to exclude certain books from the reading goal or have 'private books'!

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ladylarson
Aug 12, 2024

Nadia I love this feature and can't wait to use it more. Without an option for private books, I'm limited though. I want to share my stats with my work bookgroup... but not all my reads are work friendly. It'll be great advertising for StoryGraph if I can share these graphics more widely. Giving an option toe exclude certain books is essential.

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Nadia
Jun 26, 2024
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First template is out now: monthly cover collages without ratings. A version with ratings coming soon.

To get your graphics, head to any month's stats page and click the share icon up top or the "Share cover collage" link down below!

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tuftymctavish
Jun 26, 2024

Nadia This is a fabulous enhancement! As on 🔥 as the UK weather currently 🥵

😁

I had to restart my app, but there it is, “generating graphic” once I click the link. Splendid 👏

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Nadia
Jun 27, 2024

tuftymctavish So glad you love it!!

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Nadia
Jun 23, 2024
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We'll be delivering monthly wrap-up templates soon!

There'll be three varieties:

  1. A cover collage (with and without ratings)
  2. A summary view, similar to our annual wrap-up, in (IG Story and IG post/square format)
  3. A calendar/Gantt chart view

Well, that's the plan anyway! Let's see what we can do! :-D

Aiming to have at least the cover collage option out before July 1st.

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macthekat
Jun 23, 2024

Nadia that all sounds wonderful
It will all be really easy to print the covers for a reading journal that way!
So neat

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tuftymctavish
Jun 26, 2024

Nadia Would it be possible to have a pretty “in progress” template too? Here are all the covers for the books I’m currently reading - that aren’t featured in the wrap-up (yet) - and my percentage progress through the active ones? Perhaps from the Currently Reading panel on the home page?

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Nadia
Jun 27, 2024

tuftymctavish This only graphics coming in this round are the ones listed above but maybe that's an idea for the future. The calendar graphic will have in progress reads. For now, I guess you could screenshot the progress tracker or the currently reading page. One day we'll have thumbnails by the progress tracker on the homepage too.

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Nadia
Sep 2, 2022

Hello! Do you mean separate to the monthly Stats and Books Read pages? Because eventually we'll have a cover view that'll enable you to just get a collage of covers for the month when looking at the books read in any given month. Attached is a screenshot of my August Books Read page.

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macthekat
Sep 2, 2022

Nadia That's pretty much exactly what I meant!

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