Ok so it’s there in the latest TestFlight. I had to close and re-open the app a number of times and click in out out of trends for it to appear though…
Ok, so… That seems useful perhaps, but I don’t actually see it yet? I mean, see the point. What do you exclude? Bills?
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So I’ve done two things:
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I’ve abandoned the Income category for a set of more granular ones (salary, savings interest, capital gains etc) that give me better insights.
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I’ve separated investments from savings, and can now have different buckets for things like crowdfunding and ISAs
What I’d really like now is:
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Trends to hide the Income category if it’s empty
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Trends to recognise that when a category is overall positive and to change the text in app from “spent” to “received”.
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More sub headings than “Spending categories” and “excluded from spending”. I’d quite like to set it up to be committed spending, discretionary spending, savings and investments, income and excluded.
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These are some really good points 
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Nice approach.
Urgh, want this so much.
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I’ve just excluded “Expenses” I’ve been waiting for this since Trends arrived and it’s great 
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I suppose that’s another handy use-case, for some. Not seeing much use for myself, but I know how much it can hurt if your edge-case makes the experience a lot worse, so I guess there’s a subset of people who will be over the moon!
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Eurgh. Omitting categories makes me want to get plus again for custom categories so bad
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Somewhere a Monzonaut is patting themselves on the back for a job well done.
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Out of interest, and at the risk of telling you you’re “holding it wrong”: why not keep the built-in Income category for your salary?
We definitely used to do this… 
Can you give a screenshot of where the number is wrong?
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I could do I suppose, but my process went a bit like:
- Income is a global thing and I’m trying to split it up. Ergo create a category for all the income things.
- Move everything out of income then a swipe through the years (loving that feature) to see if there was anything still in that category that I’d missed and whether I needed another income category.
I’m now wondering if I ought to go move my salary back to income 
(I was holding it wrong).
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It’s in all the positive income categories I’ve created then excluded. Here’s one that I use for savings interest:
Edit: it’s the same in unexcluded categories if the value is positive.
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Interest seems so negligible everywhere now 
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Give it a year and we’ll miss these times.
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So true.
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Loving the Trends roll out - My only niggle is not being able to set up my salary which is paid 13 times a year (4 weekly) like summary has - Any updates on when the 4 weekly period can be set up in trends would be greatly appreciated.
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Hey everyone, hope you’re doing good.
Am I right in thinking Trends will have budgeting features eventually; is there an update on how that will work and when we should expect it?
Cheers,
James
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Hey
Yes that was the plan, but there hasn’t been an update for a while on where Monzo are with that.
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I’ll see what I can chase up
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Oooooh, thank you!
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