Quick Fix - Expenditure Categories

[alexs (Alex Sherwood)]

@anon59932345

Yeh I seem to remember there was another long thread on this before.

You might have been thinking of this thread Custom categories & multi category transactions?

I’m a fan of the interim solution that @anon37225988 suggested -

@anon37225988

I’ve been finding the notes field useful for a bit of a hacked version of custom categories.

For example, every time you buy beer, include the word beer in the notes field, then if you use the search function in the transactions page to search for “beer last month” it will pull through any transaction tagged beer from the previous month. Pull the screen down and you get a total spend and an average.

You miss out on the neat summary screen etc. but handy if there’s a specific spend you want to keep track of.

I use emoji, rather than text tags though, to avoid the risk of inconsistent case / spelling causing me to miss some results in search.