I think this would be called a Personal Finance Assistant. And yes, you would pay A LOT for this. She/he would follow you around like Ms. Potts on Ironman. Of course, you would need to be as rich as Tony Stark to afford this. So there is that one downfall. ; ]
Seriously though, I think you are about 10 years ahead of where we are now in personal finance. I am very pleased with MW. It is ME, the person, that needs the discipline. Without that, no money manager is going to help any of us. Dave On Dec 9, 5:54 pm, bvz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been looking for a decent financial app for a long time. MW > seems like it might be getting close (though I have Wells Fargo and > there seem to be some temporary issues with that bank and MW so I'm > waiting for the moment). > > The feature that I have been waiting for from any financial app is > some sort of an intelligent agent that watches over your account. > > Basically I want some sort of background app that is more or less > constantly running that checks my account several times per day. It > would be configurable with the ability to: > > -Notify you of your daily starting balance > > -Notify you of your daily ending balance (both of these via a pop up > window at a user-scheduled interval OR as a menu applet OR as a badge > on a dock applet OR as a summary email OR as an SMS OR any combination > thereof) > > -Warn you of "suspicious" activity on your account. This would be > performed as a series of rules similar to email rules. Examples: > > if a transaction is greater than $10 and the recipient is new > if two transactions to the same recipient occur within the same day > if two transactions to the same recipient are identical and occur less > than 25 days apart > if two transactions occur more than 100 miles apart within two days > if a recipient is tagged as a monthly expense, but has a transaction > more than once a month > if a transaction occurs in a foreign country (unless "vacation" mode > is turned on) > if a new atm is used for the first time > if a recipient or atm location is on a "blacklist" defined by the user > if a new bank fee shows up > if a bank fee tagged as being monthly shows up more often than it > should > > etc... > > of course these should all be user definable. > > The agent would always be running (maybe checking 5-6 times a day) so > that these alerts would pop up whenever a rule was triggered. And > when it pops up, it would offer the tools needed to deal with it (i.e. > bug me later, it's ok, it's ok just this one time, flag this > transaction in MW, etc...) > > This I would pay real money for. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
