Thank you for reply. Maybe for this particular case it will work but in case I'd need to change money flows due to overtaking from "Dining Out" bucket it would be really hard to remember to move money back to the original bucket.
In any case I think that owing money shouldn't be threated as income or expense. I didn't really eat out for two persons moreover I do need to know that I still have this money as my asset regardless of where they physically is. I think of them more like transfers and in other application I've modeled them as transfers too - from my checking account to special personal account "John Doe", for example. This way I could see our interpersonal balance with "John" - either negative, when I have to return credit, or positive, when I should get them back. In MW we have buckets which complicates such interaction. Let's think about how in 1931 people owe money. There was no envelope signed like "Owe to others" as one couldn't plan for this. Usually it was money left in other envelopes or some savings. But how did these people know that money wasn't spent but rather "blocked" for some time? They should write it down somewhere! However MW doesn't provide such capability or I'm not smart enough to figure this out :). So the ultimate question is how to block some amount of money from being available for spending? It's not about setting start date for money flows. It's about having "outside buckets" where you could put and get money but these operations don't mean income or expenses. Such paradigm will solve not only problem of tracking interactions with other persons but also tracking of savings. Seems that I came up with kind of feature request :) However I understand that after yesterday's emails hell this may just be not the best time to post it. On 29 май, 01:42, Lance <[email protected]> wrote: > On May 28, 2:35 pm, Oleg Iavorskyi <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi! > > > I'm new to MoneyWell but one day of evaluation was enough for me to > > decide that it completely fits my needs. The only problem I see is > > absence of straight instructions on how to handle interpersonal > > financial interactions in the application. > > > I owe money from other people and they owe money from me quite often. > > I'd like to track such transactions in MW (they are cash only most of > > the time). Problem is how to do this "correctly" mixed with buckets > > paradigm. I hope next example scenario will help you to understand my > > problem better. > > I would recommend assigning the entire credit card transaction to your > "Dining Out" bucket. When your colleague pays you back, you can > manually enter a "deposit" into your cash account and also assign that > to the "Dining Out" bucket so it gets credited back the amount you > lended out. > > -Lance --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
