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How to use milestone years

Save the dates that matter to your cellar, like a birth or a wedding. InVintory then helps you find bottles from those years, shows when a bottle will be ready for a big birthday, and sends a note on each anniversary when you have bottles from that year.

Where to find it

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Device Where
iPhone On the home screen, tap your profile photo, then Settings and Collection settings. Under Customization, tap Milestone years
Web app On app.invintory.com, go to Settings, click your collection, then Milestone years under Customization
Android Not available yet

Milestone years belong to the collection, so everyone in it sees the same dates. Owners, admins and editors can add, change and delete them. Viewers don’t see the settings row, but they still get the filter and the notes on the wine page.

Add a date

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  1. Open Milestone years and tap Add. On the web, click Add.
  2. Type a name, like Maya’s birthday or Our wedding.
  3. Pick the date and tap Save.
iPhone:  Home → your profile photo → Settings → Collection settings → Milestone years → Add

To change a date, tap it. To delete one on iPhone, swipe left on it and tap Delete; on the web, click the bin next to it. Either way we ask first, because you’ll stop getting a note on that date.

What milestone years do

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Where What you get
Collection filters A Milestone years row right after Vintage. Pick a date to see only bottles from its year
A wine’s page A line with a heart under the Drink Window card when the wine is from that year
Notifications A note on each anniversary, when the collection holds bottles from that year
Vincent Vincent knows your dates and brings one up when it fits what he’s recommending

Find bottles from a milestone year

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  1. On your collection, tap Filter. On the web, click Filters.
  2. Tap Milestone years, just below Vintage. The row only shows once the collection has a saved date.
  3. Pick one or more dates, then tap Apply Filters.

Picking a date doesn’t tick anything under Vintage. If you pick years there too, you see bottles from any of them.

The note on a wine’s page

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When a wine is from one of your milestone years, a line appears under its Drink Window card:

You see When
Maya’s birthday: 18 years in 2033, inside this drink window A 10th, 18th, 21st, 25th, 30th, 40th, 50th or 60th anniversary falls inside the drink window. You see the first one that does
Maya’s birthday: 1 year in 2016, inside this drink window None of those do, but another anniversary does. You see the first one
From the year of Maya’s birthday No anniversary falls inside the drink window

The anniversary note

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On the day, at 9am in the time zone of the phone or browser that saved the date, everyone in the collection gets a notification like this:

🍷 Maya's birthday
10 years ago today. You have 3 bottles from 2015.
  • It only comes when the collection holds bottles from that year, and only once per anniversary.
  • Each person’s own notification settings apply. To turn it off, switch off Milestone years in notification settings — on iPhone under Account settings → Preferences → Notifications, or in the web app’s notification settings.

Good to know

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  • Names show exactly as you type them, so add the apostrophe in Maya’s birthday yourself.
  • Moved to a new time zone? Open the date and tap Save on a device in your new time zone, and the note follows it.
  • If you save a quick filter with a milestone year picked, it’s saved as that year under Vintage.

Next steps

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