I must be doing it wrong. It only seems to pick up some recently added shows. Continue watching often doesn't have the thing I've previously watched. Trying to search for a show with a macrōn doesn't work.
It's like it's working against me. It's bad.
Have you just installed jellyfin? The scraping for metadata for me took days literally. And the difficult time is that during the scraping, the interface is very slow.
You can monitor the scraping/parsing progress in settings > dashboard > libraries. The libraries have a sort of circular progress bar with a percentage symbol (only visible in this view) when parsing is ongoing.
Have you setup your home screen? You can do that on the dashboard, hiding, grouping, etc.
If what you've watched has nearly ended, it won't show for continuing. I have the opposite issue, some shows has a long outro/preview of the next episode, so I have to either mark it as seen, or fast forward near the end for it not to show on the continuing watching section
You may want to change the following setting in that case: Settings > dashboard > playback > resume > Maximum resume percentage.
It will set the threshold of what is considered played (in percentage of video length). Default is 90%. Try lowering it?
I surely missed that setting. I am playing with it, it seems 85 is the sweet spot for me. Thanks!
Maybe I am misunderstanding, but continue watching is only for resuming media. If you stop a show or movie in the middle.
If you want to go to the next episode in a series you want to look at "Next up" section.