Amounts, dates, and ages in a collection

Amounts in their own words

When people in your circle write down a number, ShareLocket keeps the unit they used, whatever it is: cups, laps, fish, or dollars. Money reads as money, with its currency sign, lengths of time read the way you would say them (1 hr 30 min), and everything else keeps its unit (2 cups).

Cooking for more people, or fewer

When a recipe says how many it serves, you'll see the number of servings with a minus and a plus beside it. The ingredient amounts change to match, so you can halve a recipe for two or double it for a crowd.

1. Open the recipe from your collection.
2. Choose + for more servings or − for fewer.
3. The ingredient amounts update as you go.

This is just for you, right now. Nothing is saved, nobody else sees it, and the recipe goes back to its own amounts when you leave it.

Dates as they were written

Dates keep the wording people used. If someone wrote "the summer of 1962," that's what you'll see, not a made-up day.

Birthdays show how old the person is now, such as (age 34). Other anniversaries show how long ago they were, such as (six years ago).

When something has a start and an end, like the years someone lived in a house, the two dates read together as 1998 to 2004, six years, in one column of a table. On the timeline, under Over the years, they show as one bar from start to end.

How old someone was

When a post shows a person whose birth date has been added on their page, and the post has a date for when it happened, you'll see how old they were then, such as "Nia, age 6." It appears under photos in a collection, on the timeline, and on that person's own page.

If you don't see an age, the birth date may not have been added yet, or it may only say the year. Add the full birth date on the person's page and the ages appear. A post without a date for when it happened shows no age.