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Your concert life, in one place.

Every show you've been to. Every recording that exists. Logged, rated, and ready to play.

The Problem

You remember shows in fragments. The Gorge sunset during a second-set Tweezer. The MSG run where every night topped the last. The Red Rocks rain that turned a Billy Strings show into something no one expected. The memories are vivid. But finding the recordings means searching three apps, cross-referencing dates, and hoping someone uploaded it.

Remembering what you have already listened to means a spreadsheet, a notes app, or nothing at all. You know you heard a great SBD of that Dillon show, but was it on nugs or Archive? Did you rate it? Did you even finish it? After fifty, a hundred, two hundred shows, the history blurs together. Your concert life deserves better than scattered browser tabs.

Concert Diary ticket-stub timeline, year-grouped, showing attended Billy Strings, Goose, and Dead & Company shows with source pills

Log Any Show

Date, venue, artist, the note you'd otherwise forget by Tuesday. Each show becomes a ticket stub on a timeline grouped by year, so a decade of touring reads top to bottom the way you lived it. Open one and Showboard matches it against Phish.in on the spot, so a Phish night turns into a clickable recording without you typing the date into anything.

Phish at The Gorge, 7/14/24

Billy Strings at Red Rocks, 7/21/23

Goose at Dillon Amphitheater, 9/3/22

Add shows as you go or backfill years in one sitting. Showboard autocompletes venues and artists, so logging a run of Dead & Company summer dates takes minutes. Each stub carries source pills for where the recordings live, so you can see at a glance whether the night is on nugs, on Archive, or sitting in your own FLAC folder.

Every Recording, Found For You

Mark a show as attended and Showboard searches all six sources in the background. Soundboards and audience tapes from Archive.org. Auto-matched sets from Phish.in. Hi-res streams from nugs.net. TIDAL and Qobuz. Your own local files. If a recording of that night exists anywhere Showboard reaches, it gets pinned to the diary entry as a source pill you can tap to play.

You log Billy Strings at Red Rocks, 7/21/23. Showboard comes back with the nugs.net multitrack, two audience recordings from Archive, and the FLAC folder already on your drive, each one a pill on that single stub. No searching. No pasting dates into four search bars. You were at the show. The recordings come to you.

Rate and Remember

Star ratings, personal notes, favorite shows. Which recording of that night was the best? What was the standout moment? Was it the Dew that went to space or the acoustic encore that silenced fifteen thousand people? Your concert history with context that actually matters.

Six months later, a friend asks about the Gorge run. You open your diary and it is all there. The night you rated five stars. The note you wrote about the Set II opener. The specific recording you preferred. Not a hazy memory of "it was good." A real record of what the night meant to you, attached to the actual music.

Your Timeline, Across Every Mac

Browse it chronologically and watch your own story take shape. The first show you ever saw. The summer you hit twelve dates in six weeks. The fall run that rearranged your top five. The timeline is a wall of ticket stubs, year by year, and it's the same on every Mac you own. Log a show on the Mac mini at home and it's already there on the laptop. Favorites, ratings, notes, and play history ride along over iCloud, with no account to make beyond the Apple ID you already have.

140 shows

logged

19 artists

seen live

115 venues

visited

Stats that tell the real story: how many shows, how many artists, how many rooms you keep going back to. Not vanity metrics. A record of the nights that mattered, and the bands you've followed across state lines. If you paused a show on one Mac, the other picks it up from the Continue Listening card. Your diary is yours, it grows with every show, and it's wherever you are.

I Was There Card

Build a shareable card for any show in your diary. The gradient is generated from the show date, venue, and artist, so every card is unique. Phish at MSG on New Year's Eve gets a different palette than Goose at Radio City in October. The algorithm turns the details of the night into color.

Share it with the friend who was standing next to you. Post it the morning after. Send it to the group chat that planned the trip. The card is proof you were in the room. Not a ticket stub you lost in a drawer. Not a blurry phone photo from the lawn. A clean, beautiful object that says: I was there, and this is what it looked like.

Common questions

How do I log a show I attended in Showboard?

Open your Concert Diary, add the date, venue, and artist, and the show becomes a ticket stub on a timeline grouped by year. Showboard autocompletes venues and artists, so you can add tonight's show or backfill years of history in one sitting. Each stub holds your rating, your notes, and the recordings of that night.

Does Showboard find recordings of the shows I attended?

Yes. When you mark a show as attended, Showboard searches all six sources in the background, including Archive.org, Phish.in, nugs.net, TIDAL, Qobuz, and your local files. Any recording it finds is pinned to that diary entry as a source pill you can tap to play. Phish shows are auto-matched against Phish.in when you open them.

Does my Concert Diary sync across my Macs?

Yes. Your diary, favorites, ratings, notes, playlists, and play history sync across all your Macs over iCloud. Log a show on one Mac and it's there on the next. If you paused a show on one Mac, a Continue Listening card lets another Mac pick it up where you left off. There's no separate account to create.

Can I share a show from my diary?

Yes. Build an I Was There card for any show in your diary. The color palette is generated from the date, venue, and artist, so every card is unique, and you can share it with the friend who stood next to you or post it the morning after.

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