Recently read a posting where you said you'd never implement hierarchical buckets. I would like to argue that what you lose doesn't compare to what you gain. I know you said you may implement tags, but tags come in "after the fact." In other words, you can't tag a transaction before it happens.
I first wrote a paragraph defending heirarchical buckets but deleted it, realizing this wasn't the point of my feature request. I'm simply looking for a way to organize many buckets. The image could be of simply organizing the buckets...of "putting the buckets in rooms." I don't think that's too much to ask, and it doesn't compromise your overall model for the application. Click a reveal triangle to reveal buckets in the "garage" and there's all your auto-related buckets. Click to reveal the "Church" buckets and there's all your giving- related buckets (tithe, specific missions, etc). This isn't really about having sub-buckets at all. It's really just about not having to see all your buckets at once, providing a little organization to those who want a finer grain to their planning, who have a lot of buckets, and don't want to see them all at once. Seems like this would be fairly easy to implement. You've already got iTunes style folders on the left pane (Smart, Income, Expense). You could add folders for the buckets that the user could label. Of course, someone who doesn't have many buckets and doesn't want to use folders, doesn't have to use them. Clicking on a folder when practically filter the transactions and graph for that set of buckets. My two cents...ok, a dime. :-) -John P.S. Below is the deleted paragraph defending heirarchical buckets (read or ignore): It's been said that almost no expense is truly unforeseeable. Take auto expenses: tires, oil changes, etc. I could theoretically have a bucket that is to be filled by the time each of these would predictably come due. I guess I could get a calculator and calendar work all this out (and then write it all down for each overall bucket), but you've got all the "gears" for working this out in the program already. Of course, all you would need is a simple "reveal" triangle by each bucket, that would reveal the buckettes. All the transactions would still be seen in the overall bucket, but it would be easy then to plan for each specific expense, the key word of course being "plan". To look ahead, see the expense in the future and plan for it financially. PLAN, financially, for new tires ($250); PLAN, financially, to have the serpentine belt replaced ($350), etc. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 no-thirst-software@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to no-thirst-software+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/no-thirst-software?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
