Building Aira: a calm anime tracker for myself

Tracking anime has been part of my routine for years. I used MyAnimeList, updated it after every episode and never thought much about whether there might be a better way to do it. It worked well enough for the way I watched anime at the time. When I first got into anime, I always had a backlog. There were older classics I wanted to see, highly rated shows I had missed and a long list of things I…