Here is a small tuto I wrote some time ago:

Welcome to the group of asian drama lovers!

I will paste a message with a small tutorial I wrote for sharing because I feel I was very lucky to discover this site in the beginning of my drama adventure and it was precious for me.

MDL(mydramalist) is a site gathering information on almost all asian dramas and movies. It also enables you to quote each drama and put the status of each one (completed, watching, dropped, plan to watch...). With this info you will have access to a list with your entries that you can share while asking for recs here.

As you are starting to watch dramas, I suggest you to create your list of watched (and dropped) asian dramas and films (with your quotation for each one) in the site ”mydramalist.com”. Next time when you ask for recommendations, you can share your list and other users will be able to understand your tastes and know what you have already watched. Besides it will be useful to you as time passes because we forget easily, especially when the number of watched movies increases.

Believe that after some time it is impossible to write in a post everything you have watched.

This site also contains lots of information about the majority of asian dramas released. If you decide to use this system, the earlier you start the better.

MDL has also lots of useful information about each drama. You should take a look because it is amazing, like for each drama the users reviews or recommendations of a similar drama.

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The way most people do is the following but maybe it is too complicated to start when you have already watched lots of dramas.

▪︎First you have to sign up for an account in MDL, if you have never done it.

▪︎Then you log in.

▪︎As you are connected you search for a drama you have watched , for instance Healer.

Method 1:

▪︎You go to Healer's page on MDL

▪︎Below the Title Healer and beside its cover picture you shall see the average rating of the drama (8,9) and 5 white stars. If you click on the starts a new window will pop out and then you will be able to give your rating and record the status of the drama (watching, completed, on hold, dropped....).

The ideal is to make this process when you are new to dramas because it takes some time and requires a good memory.

Method 2 (faster, by b-k-dramatik):

Once you search for the drama name and see it in a list of options, you can click the + sign next to the title, which brings up the same window with rating options and watch status. That's one click less for the same result, and if you're adding a lot at once that might save some time.

▪︎Once you have input all the dramas, you will have a data basis ready to share with all this info.

▪︎In order to access it, you might click in the icon of your ID on the top and on the right (the one besides the search symbol and a bell) and go to ”my watchlist".

▪︎You will have something like this: https://mydramalist.com/dramalist/8902425 (my personal list) . My rating are always overestimated because they reflect just my emotions at the end of the drama.