Hi Patrick, thanks for your quick answer, but I'm not completely sure if I got your idea :)
> That's close, but what I think you'd want to do is allocate money, > that is, drag your money from A to the savings bucket. Then transfer Here is the first problem: There is no way to drag an account like A to a bucket like "Savings". You can only do that for a transaction. At least in 1.4 :) > from A to B and mark that transaction as an expense against the > Savings bucket. That's your "planned" savings amount for the month. That's basically what I did: Transfer from A to B via "Transfer" function and allocating my "Savings" expense bucket to that transaction. What I get is a correct amount on A (-100) and B (+100) and also the correct amount within the bucket (+100 to spend). The problem is the graph, because it's negative and contains the positive 100. Since my "Savings" is an expense bucket MoneyWell also thinks that I spent 1000 last month in savings, but that's only my positive starting balance :) > That way, your Savings Account balance reflects your sort of "cushion" > for use in overflow. To utilize those funds ,you'd allocate from your > Savings account to an income bucket and then allocate funds from the > bucket to your expense buckets as needed. I didn't think about using an intermediate income bucket. I actually had the "easy, dirty" way in mind: If I want to "refill" a bucket I would use a manual flow from my "Savings" expense bucket and I would create a new transfer from B to A to get the funding. Maybe I'm thinking to complicated. What's the "normal" way to set up savings and savings accounts? Maybe it's easier if I don't track the transfer to account B, so that the savings are actually real expenses. And whenever I would need the money for refilling buckets and on my bank account I would just use another income category (as you proposed)? Marcus --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "No Thirst Software User Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/no-thirst-software?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
