rob colonna: October 2004 Archives

While i had intended to get this out the door a couple of weeks ago, assorted things like the red sox striving for the impossible and getting a job distracted me from the task at hand. Version 915a got a lot of user feedback, and a lot of ideas for new things to add, not all of which i was able to do, but hopefully the new features here will be reasonably useful to people. My free time will be a little constrained for a while, but hopefully this will suffice for a while; hopefully there aren't any serious bugs that come up.

Without further ado, the new features:
- First and foremost, there's the new Frequent Transactions tool. Since many of us spend money in the same places over and over again, but not necessarily on any kind of schedule, there was a gap in the functionality that made that somewhat repetitive. No longer, for now there's a handy palette of frequently-used transactions available, so that almost-daily coffee at Dunkin' Donuts isn't such a pain to enter every time.

Using it is easy--all you have to do to add something to the palette is drag it there. To use it, drag it into the account (the date and check number are automatically reset). And if you're wondering why i keep saying the word 'drag', yes, it means that you can drag and drop transactions now.

- The other big thing is an export to the iCal calendar format. This allows a chronological record of your transactions to be reconciled with other events, such as business trips or the holidays. Both normal and recurring transactions can be exported.

- Slightly less interesting, but useful is a new Preference for putting the account balance in the title bar; this is not exciting when you're looking at the window, but it does let you check it at a glance when it's minimized in the Dock, something i find useful, and since i'm the one writing the 'code', i have a lot of influence with myself.

- By request, Recurring Transactions can now add deposits, too. Formerly, it was assumed that they'd always be debits, but now, deposits can be done too--just make sure that the Description field begins with 'Deposit', for instance 'Deposit for winning first prize in the llama show'.

- Much much more... Okay, a few more obscure things that were requests, miscellaneous bug fixes, less memory leaking, i think.

So there you go, loyal users; hope it's useful for you.

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