I have quite a few Expense buckets (~40) and this can make it difficult to quickly find a bucket of interest when dragging & dropping money flows.
At first I tried to follow the advice on the web site and consolidate my buckets (i.e. merge buckets like Electricity, Water, and Garbage into a single "Utilties" bucket) but this quickly broke down as it became too difficult to figure out how much to put in the Spending Plan for each merged bucket. I'm using MoneyWell to replace what I used to do manually in Excel, so I want to avoid having to maintain a separate spreadsheet just to track the estimated expenses for individual components of each bucket. So I went back to having ~40 buckets and tried prefixing each bucket name with a category (i.e. Utilities-Electricity) but this has the major downside of crippling the auto-complete feature (I now have to type "Utilities-E" instead of just "E"). At this point I've settled on creating "dummy" buckets to act as dividers. For example, I create a bucket named "----- UTILITIES -----" and move it so it sits above all my Utility buckets. This has been working OK so far, but has the downside of taking up more screen real estate in the bucket list. It seems like the ideal solution would be to consolidate the buckets and add a feature to MoneyWell that lets you do sort of a "split transaction" on the spending plan amount so you can plan for the individual component amounts and have MoneyWell sum them up for you. How have others handled this problem? Or am I just missing something here? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
