How to keep your collection accurate over time
Two habits do almost all of the work: remove bottles the day you drink them, and reach for bulk edit rather than editing bottles one by one. The rest of this article is the traps.
Remove as you go
Section titled “Remove as you go”A collection drifts because removals get postponed, not because adding is hard. Removing is three taps from your collection page and the date defaults to today, so doing it in the moment beats reconstructing a month later.
There is no quantity to edit
Section titled “There is no quantity to edit”Quantity only appears while you are adding. Once bottles exist, each is a row of its own, so you change a count by adding or removing. On iPhone, swiping left on a wine gives you Add beside Remove for exactly this.
Changing a vintage is not the same as fixing a wine
Section titled “Changing a vintage is not the same as fixing a wine”Editing the year moves the bottle onto a different label — the row for that wine in that year — and anything stored against the old label stays behind.
| Follows the bottle | Stays with the old year |
|---|---|
| Tags, purchase price, date and source, your note, its storage and 3D slot, and bottle custom fields | Your drink-window and ABV edits, the label photo, label custom fields, your custom market value, and your tasting notes |
Bulk edit sets values, it does not merge them
Section titled “Bulk edit sets values, it does not merge them”Read the bulk form as what you are about to set, not as what the bottles currently hold. Where your selection disagrees, a field falls back to a default rather than showing a blank — size falls back to 750ml, prices and storage to empty. Only fields you actually change get sent.
Two rows are narrower than the rest: Vintage and custom fields appear only when every bottle you picked is the same wine and year. The cap is 500 bottles at once. The button reads Save when you are editing and Confirm when you are adding, which is a useful check that you are in the flow you think you are.
Collection → tap the circle on a wine's row → ⋯ → EditOn a shared collection, read Activity
Section titled “On a shared collection, read Activity”Activity is the only place that answers “who changed this”. It records bottles added, consumed, sold, gifted, removed, moved between storages and switched to a different wine, with the collaborator’s name, and nothing ages out. It does not record field edits — it will tell you a bottle moved, not that someone retyped its price.
Next steps
Section titled “Next steps”- How to bulk edit bottles — every action on the selection bar, and the three things you have to type
- How to edit vintages — the full account of what moves and what does not
- Understanding your collection activity — what the feed records, and what it never will

