Hi, I think this answered a question I had, but I just want to be sure. I currently use Budget, but I'm looking around since it's lacking in many areas. I find MoneyWell very well done. The UI does have a much better design to it then Budget, but I'm still having issues coming to grips with the Allocate Income. I guess a simple way to say it is, can I turn off the whole monthly window concept and have it be continuous? That is, no rollovers and have the Allocate Income dispense based on percentages? I was hoping if I set all buckets to the same priority it would do something like this, but it doesn't appear to. It looks like it tries to figure out where we are in the current month and it doesn't allocate all of the income. This is what I do currently. Since Budget is limited, I wrote a small Java app where I input our income and how much we want to go into each bucket each month. It then calculates how much goes into each bucket for each of our paychecks using simple percentages. I then input this into Budget. We can then just deposit pay and spend as we go. Sorry, I rambled a bit. Thank you, -phil
On Dec 12, 4:33 pm, Kevin Hoctor <[email protected]> wrote: > On Dec 12, 2008, at 5:24 PM, Rich wrote: > > > I like to simplify my life even more. I really don't care about > > filling up then draining buckets, I just want to track how much > > money flows through each bucket. I'd like to be able to tell the > > program what time period to display for bucket totals. The program > > seems to be locked into displaying the bucket totals for the last 5 > > months. > > Hi Rich, > > Actually, the default view of the graph is six months of historic > information, but you can change that with the View menu. I've toyed > with the idea of allowing the spending plan/cash flow to be turned off > so that this is just a check register program but decided that I > didn't have time to add this option for 1.4. I'm still looking at > doing it when I add the ability to have multiple spending plans with > date ranges on each. > > > I'd love to change this. For example, if I never fill up my expense > > buckets, nor drain my income buckets, but I could click "Display > > Year-to-date Bucket Totals" then I could just look at my home screen > > to see how much I have spent and made in each bucket so far this > > year. It would be even nicer to be able to set the bucket totals > > display for other periods (month-to-date, quarter-to-date, customer > > date range). > > There will be more graphing options in future releases as well to see > trends and data in different ways. Since this is an envelope budgeting > program by nature, I wanted to make sure that process and the related > visuals were fleshed out first before working on the other views. > > So you don't do any budgeting or you're looking to just handle it > manually? > > > Another nice feature wold be to add a very basic income statement > > report: all income buckets minus all expense buckets = net flow. > > Nicer still would be a report generator that brought up a list with > > a check box for each bucket so you could check which buckets to > > include in the report, by customer date range. > > Visuals like this are planned along with more extensive reporting. > It's just a matter of keeping the interface clean as I add features. I > really want to avoid the "everything and the kitchen sink" look that > infects so many other applications. > > > Hope you consider this. The program is pretty cool otherwise. Clean-- > > no ads or advice telling me what to do for my retirement--just basic > > transaction tracking. The new download function is great! > > Thank you for your feedback and suggestions! > > Peace, > > Kevin Hoctor > [email protected] > No Thirst Software LLChttp://nothirst.comhttp://kevinhoctor.blogspot.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
