Hack 14 Viewing Suggestions in the To Do List

TiVo has a wandering eye and is always on the lookout for what you may not have explicitly ask it to record, but which it thinks you might enjoy anyway. This hack shows you what TiVo has in mind.

Much of TiVo's magic lies in the way it watches what you watch and makes some independent decisions on other shows you might like but may not yet have noticed or thought about recording. While you might think the To Do List is TiVo's list of what to record, it's really TiVo's list of what you've asked it to record. This hack makes the To Do List reflect TiVo's list of what it intends to offer you.

To see what interests TiVo, enable backdoors [Hack #8], then enter the following backdoor hack sequence on your remote control from the To Do List:

While you can remove these suggestions from the To Do List, this doesn't necessarily cancel the recording. The suggestion may be added back or the program may record anyway.

Reapply this hack to remove those suggestions from the list.