On Apr 24, 2009, at 3:47 PM, Lance wrote: > On Apr 24, 1:20 pm, Kevin Hoctor <[email protected]> wrote: >> I'm not a fan of hierarchal buckets because they hide important >> detail >> in an envelope budget system. >> > > I would agree with that statement for expense buckets, but it doesn't > really apply to "savings" buckets. MoneyWell doesn't currently > distinguish "savings" buckets from expense buckets, but many people > use buckets to accumulate cash towards certain savings goals. > > As Vivek mentioned, it would be nice to have a single top level > Savings bucket (which you keep collapsed down most of the time) and > then have sub buckets underneath that which earmark some subset of > your savings towards a particular goal. Currently the only way to do > this is create a separate bucket for every goal, but this takes up > lots of screen real estate. I ended up moving all my savings buckets > into a separate MoneyWell file to better handle this. > That will be accomplished with the future "Wish List" functionality. ;)
> I'm not sure how tagging would address the screen real estate problem, > unless some GUI tricks are done to break down a bucket by tag or > something similar (which would be pretty cool). Tagging is mostly for reporting and filtering where buckets are for managing cash flow. Peace, Kevin Hoctor [email protected] No Thirst Software LLC http://nothirst.com http://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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
