New in SpendThrift 3.0: Multi-Account Interface

For years, SpendThrift was built as a fairly standard document-type program, requiring multiple windows to be open, one for each account. A great many users wrote asking how one could have multiple accounts in SpendThrift. The answer was always a separate document. Still is, actually. What's happened in the time since SpendThrift was created, though, is the popularization of the iTunes-like approach to document handling, which is to say, you pretty much don't anymore. Open the program, and the program worries about the data.

As a result, SpendThrift now picks a directory, and opens every SpendThrift file in the directory. The single window displays every one of these documents in a list, with convenient information as to their status, just like Mail and iTunes. Switching from one to the other is a single click away, and you need never know where the files are if you don't want to. This was a major philosophical switch for me, as i'd always thought of SpendThrift as valuing simplicity above all else, but then i realized that in addition to my bank account, i should probably keep a closer eye on things like credit cards. Voila, a multi-account interface.