Spending pie chart & drinks category

[alexs (Alex Sherwood)]

The categories are due to be reworked so it’s good to see another suggestion for a new category

While you’re waiting, you could add a emoji to the notes for your drinks transactions. Then, as long as you only buy drinks in that purchase, you’d be able to see your total spend / average spend (using the search tool). Or if that doesn’t work out, you’ll at least be able to see the number of times you bought drinks each month

When pie charts were requested before, this was Hugo’s comment on them -

Where are the doughnuts?

Well, it’s kind of a tricky problem. Every time we’ve considered circular charts we’ve come to the conclusion that they weren’t really the best solution for the problem we were trying to solve. Pie charts (for our use case) have two big problems: Spending is usually really skewed towards rent and bills so any pie chart of spending is likely to have maybe a 50% of the chart precision gone in just one category. That leaves very little room for the rest of spending. Categories with little sp…

And Tom’s

@alexs

Tom hates “those horrible pie charts in your traditional banking app” too

personally I agree but obviously this is subjective…

The good news is that once the API’s ready, other developers will be able to build apps that summarise your spending, like Quid’s & they can include as many pie charts as you like