I would also recommend reducing the number of buckets to the minimum possible. Do you really need to subdivide all those things? I have recently combined some buckets and it makes things simpler.
Shaun On Mar 24, 2:28 pm, Kevin Hoctor <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mar 24, 2009, at 3:51 AM, Lance wrote: > > > > > > > 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? > > Lance, > > I highly recommend not creating dummy buckets. You can drag and order > buckets any way you like so you can group all your utility buckets > together without having to prefix them with "Utility." Just drag a > bucket above or below another until you see a line between them and > release. > > Try this and let me know if that solves your need for organization > please. > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
