On Apr 18, 10:57 pm, The Watkinson Family <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Lance,
>
> Would it need to be anything more complicated than this? Or is there  
> something I'm missing?
>

Ok, I see what you're saying now but I'm not sure that's much of an
improvement over what we currently have. I'd like a smart bucket that
shows the difference between the sum of my cash flow accounts and my
bucket balances (which will always be $0 for me) so I can immediately
see if I have any errors without having to visually compare two
numbers or click anywhere.

Since real buckets have both a list of associated transactions and a
list of associated money flows, perhaps each smart bucket could have
two separate queries and would sum the amounts together. Then you
could still easily create simple transaction only based queries, but
if you wanted, you could also flip to a Money Flow query tab as well.

I see smart buckets as being really useful to "combine" multiple
physical buckets you already have. For example, I could create a smart
bucket that combines my bills into a single smart bucket, or even
create "discretionary" and "non-discretionary" buckets. Maybe even
"first half" and "second half" of the month expense buckets. Lots of
possibilities here.

All of these would require the ability to query on money flows to make
them useful and work similar to existing buckets. If I were limited to
transaction only queries, there are one or two I might use (sum of
open transactions), but overall I wouldn't find the feature very
useful. But perhaps others see usages I don't.

-Lance


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