How do you keep track of your "wishlist" and other watch research?

Oh I’m much more scattergun. Find a bargain and either talk myself out of it or make a rash decision and buy it!

my friend has a v similar spreadsheet to you. It must be an accountant thing.

Very similar, but I also have a bit of "see shiny, buy shiny" in my DNA

You and I are cut from the same cloth. When it’s car buying time, my desk looks like Mission Control.

I do something similar on my phone. I categorize watches by type (I have several versions of how I categorize them). I then try to build a fitting collection based on chosen/random criteria. 
 

I keep a running list in my Google Keep app and then purge it periodically.

And then I accidentally cut deals for watch collections from busted out crypto bros for watches I don't even want.  I'm....weird.

I'm a data guy as well.

Add me to the OCD-analytics column.  A guy can have worse vices . .

2022 was the year of the green dial. Need to update that collection!

I'm a bit late to the green dial party. I'll wait til the hype dies down and try and pick up a bargain along the way 😉

I use the notepad on chrono24 because I am one lazy dude, but one fifth organized. Also it gives me live data on the sotc in terms of valuation.  More importantly to show the other half I am being "responsible" with our money....

Wow, I have FOMO (my kids are home).  I keep all my watches on a simple boring list in Google Docs titled Watches but you have inspired me to be better.  

Is that your wish list or your actual collection? If the latter, I tip my cap to you!

I do the same thing but with Airtable. Easier and prettier than Google Sheets and also free. I have one table for planned collection and one for watches under consideration. I don’t care about the movement as much so don’t have it listed in mine. However, I care a lot about the case material and dial construction so I list those as columns. 

Being the analogue type of person that I am. When I find a piece I know I really want. It's written down in the back of a note book that's impossible to find ( hidden in plain sight on top of a few older used note books) in my desk.

Currently there are 8 watch's on that list. 

This is as much organizing I can handle before I just started throwing away every watch I own because it started to look like work. 

Hiss and brandish my watchbox 

Back, back you devilish fiends and your Excel spreadsheets! The house of Seikosha, Swatch Group compels you! 

I don't use anything to keep track of my desired watches. If I really want something, I remember it. If I don't remember a watch, it's not worth getting.

Ditto on the spreadsheet. I use mine to try to understand what I like and don't like about my watches so I can plan what I should buy next. I still need to feel the love when I try it on, but knowing why I wanted a watch in the first place and then researching it is half the fun.

I don't. No need to. Just check the relevant Tim Mosso's video on any given watch

Glad to see a native nerd soul. I do very similar staff. Though I use Notion for that

To track the watches I own I use the ”Watches” app on an iPad.  It‘s useful for tracking wear rates, and cost per wear which I find interesting. 
Occasionally I’ll create an excel spreadsheet to list and compare specs, features, cost, etc to compare watches I’m interested in adding to the collection. 

Tim’s videos are must see TV for watch addicts!

I like to keep a ‘wishlist’ on my iPad/iPhone on Notability…just notes/reminders and personal notes on why I like certain watches. Do the same for my collection but keep things like warranty and serial numbers on there

Apple Note, by type of watch and order preference, shared with @WrapItUp in case she gets the urge to buy me something. ;-)

Like @witcher.watcher, I use Notion. I've created a little database which allows me to arrange my current collection, targets and things I've sold in their own views. Each watch can have a stock image from the web and a photo if it's one I own (or have owned). I can also view on the web, in the desktop app or on my mobile.

I've recently discovered the WristCheck mobile app which I use to track my wear stats, as I've not found a way to integrate that into my Notion setup.

I keep track of watches I want in my head.

Then I blow my budget on models that are available locally. 

Me too! I'm a pen and paper bloke.  I made a list last summer then lost it somewhere in my office.

Wrote a new one last month then found the old one.

Each had a dozen potential purchases all sub £500.

There were only two watches from the first list still on the second! My desires clearly change from month to month!