New TiVo Tip

After 12 years I'm still learning things about TiVo? According to Tips and tricks, down under "De-dupe Your Now Playing List" you can create a keyword Wishlist and pushing one of the Thumbs buttons lets you mark the keyword as required, optional or excluded. As that's tip explains this can be quite useful:

"If you like The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, you know what happens when the show takes a week or two hiatus: Your DVR records lots of repeats because they stop listing the guests for each night. Why? When the networks don't provide unique guide data, TiVo can't determine if the show is new or a repeat, so it records them all to play it safe. Waste space and/or manual recordings no more! Martin T., from the Web's most beloved TiVo community forum, exercised the new-and-improved TiVo WishList® feature to to get us our daily Jon Stewart, without the three extra servings. "



"By default the keyword is required in your search. Press either Thumbs button once to exclude the keyword (adds a minus sign), again to make it optional (adds parentheses), and third time to make it required (removes symbols)."

You can use this thumbs tip with only one keyword assigned too. It's probably better to make this wishlist with "Daily Show with Jon Stewart" as a title keyword instead of just a keyword. Also, when making such a wishlist it's really nice to have a keyboard to enter information rather than using the remote and the letter grid. I used the TiVo iPad app for it.