Thank you! I'll wait patiently and try not to owe too much during this period :).
On 29 май, 14:12, Kevin Hoctor <ke...@nothirst.com> wrote: > The ability to track I.O.U.s in MoneyWell is already on the planned > feature list. Thanks! > > Peace, > > Kevin Hoctor > No Thirst Software LLChttp://nothirst.com > > Sent from my iPhone > > On May 29, 2009, at 4:24 AM, Oleg Iavorskyi <oleg.iavors...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > 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 <goo...@lancegeiger.com> wrote: > >> On May 28, 2:35 pm, Oleg Iavorskyi <oleg.iavors...@gmail.com> 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 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
