Kevin, I understand your point about hopelessly trying to predict the future and I don't think that's what I'm trying to do. I'm just trying to avoid having to maintain a separate spreadsheet to track what I think could easily be done within MoneyWell.
Now that I've started playing with Future Transactions, I think I might have solved my problem somewhat. If I set up Future Transactions for every regular bill I expect to have through the rest of the year, I can now group things into fewer buckets. I just discovered the "Repeat" feature for transactions, which is very handy. You should create a video tutorial on this one as many users are probably missing how useful this can be. Going back to my previous example, I create a set of repeating future transactions for Electricity, Water, Garbage, etc. I can easily set up the repeat to happen every month or every two months based on how often I get that bill. Now I can get away with a single bucket (Utilities) while still being able to plan for each bill individually (via Future Transactions). I'll still have to see how this works out as I go forward. I assume when the "real" transaction comes in next month, MoneyWell will autodetect it as duplicate and ask to merge with my future transaction I put in there. If so, this solution should work pretty well for and will eliminate my need for so many buckets. The one very small enhancement that would really sell me on this method is if MoneyWell could automatically fill in (or at least suggest) the Spending Plan amount based on Future Transactions I've already entered. Currently I can just select a month, then select all the transactions that show up and look at the bottom to see the sum and then manually fill that in. I would also like some visual indication if my current Spending Plan amount is lower than the sum of the Future Transactions I have assigned to this bucket for the month. This would make it easy for me to find where I've screwed up the Spending Plan amount. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
