"the total that MoneyWell gives you at the bottom of the main window when you select more than one transaction?"
Thats really neat! Cool! I can use that feature. Now I know. I do not have auto downloads but was able to grab a year or more transactions from my CAD banks. I have since used the "starting balance" and keyed in a number, whatever it took to balance out to what my account should total. As I find other records, if I find more statements and can fill in more past, again I have to adjust the "starting balance" in order that my ending balance works out right. This is the way to do this is it not? Eventually I will just be moving forward here, downloading only new records as my financial picture is nice to see and at that point my "starting balance" will never have to be re-adjusted. My app has crashed a couple of times doing stuff, but it does not appear any data was lost. I'm making a backup daily by option clicking on the file and moving a copy into another folder and naming it as BAC with a date. Am I being paranoid? The app actually has been solid running, just on import it sometimes complains, or doing too much too quickly. So far I think this was the best $40 I have ever spent in my life. I actually love looking at my books now, something that used to be this weight on my shoulders and a deep pit in my stomach of not knowing. I'm glad I took some time off to just start plugging this stuff all in, its pretty hard to move forward when you have no idea how things are going. The old way I did things consumed time and still didnt tell me a lot. Now I feel like wanting to fill all those buckets, I feel like I can finally see that stream of water like a fountain instead of something that used to just wash me away in a torrent of frustration. Its beautiful to see this in action and I haven't even scratched the surface of it, nor do I need anything that complex, it seems to be elegant in its simplicity. One guy was worried about how he could use some of a bucket right away and probably opposite as I'm looking at it as wanting to see them all start to fill up. Like the MoneyWell video said its all just on a virtual plane so if you have to spend more then a bucket, let it spill over go red and let the software balance things out. I personally see lots of buckets that I'm wondering if I could do without. I never could see my finances so clearly with all the little bits totaling up. Its like a well separated hardware store where I can grab a bucket of bolts, or a jar of screws, everything is well sorted in motion. If I later decide that one bucket is filled with drywall screws and deck screws, I can easily re-allocate them to a new bucket. I do not have to wad through files and envelopes of paperwork re-organizing, just one bucket and one account at a time. It was cool to find transactions where money went out to be paid into another account and from there allocated to others or expenses. The Salary is so much easier to see now, since I'm self employed and paid on multiple revenue streams...I dont get a paycheck on the 1st of every month, its all random for me with nothing guaranteed, yet this app is still usefull for me. Yet its all fine in the virtual MoneyWell, it shows me what I'm doing. I couldn't afford to keep a secretary/ accountant on staff to show me these beautiful graphs. LOL Thank you MoneyWell! I got top grades in high school for accounting but my life was still a mess giving up trying to follow things through multiple accounts and I seriously think the stress was killing me of not knowing or being in control of my financial end. It was like they gave me a lump of salt to rub my wounds with, the tools were just not that practical in the faster paced world we are in today. The tools they gave me were the wrong ones, like trying to build a house binder twine. It was impossibly frustrated with extremely rigid accounting programs and others that wouldn't open my banks files, to the point that I let the mess all pile up, never wanting to look at it. Its like I have been given a new key to unlock things, or organize them and file away or play with, I cant start in the middle or wherever and start throwing them into buckets, watching the pieces start to fall into place till eventually the room is clean and my financial house is in order. I know now where the busted water lines are and where my well spring of knowledge is. I don not know how much more I can accomplish now, but I gather quite a bit, Its not a jigsaw puzzle of busted pieces as I can see my financial picture now! I'll probably learn that I'm doing something wrong along the way, but I still know that I already know a lot more then I ever used to, thanks to this app and its flexibility I'm not even worried about it. Instead I'm looking for more things to throw into it. Now thats a change of attitude! LOL --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
