Keep Discogs and a private vinyl catalogue

Discogs is where pressings and marketplace prices live in public. Your notes, your loans, and what you paid do not have to live there too.

A second catalogue sounds like extra work until you want the list on your phone without opening a public profile in a shop. Then it is the simpler way to check a record.

You are not failing either system by using both. One identifies pressings in public. The other holds the private shelf. Keeping them apart is the point.

Import once, so the records you already catalogued are on the phone. After that, add a new purchase in ViniVault when you get home. If you still want the Discogs profile kept up to date, add it there as well.

Do not expect the two lists to shadow each other forever. The import is a copy at the time you run it. A record added in only one place stays in only one place.

Import from Account, then use ViniVault for notes, the price you paid, the wishlist, and the shop check. Discogs can remain the public catalogue.

Your ViniVault notes are not published back to Discogs. A typed price in the vault does not become a public marketplace figure.