Sort expenses by card account

[825i]

I know we have tags and that's a huge improvement. But most of my expenses are split across card accounts. I'd absolutely love to know how much I am spending in each account on these expenses. Especially as I have to top one of them up constantly. 🙏

[DennisBauer]

@825i Adding another categorization next to tags makes the app unnecessary complex without a huge difference. Can't you just work with tags to achieve the same? With the already existent feature request #577 you would then be able to see the spending for each tag.

[825i]

If use a tag to label a bunch of subscriptions or bills eg. as "Account 1" the problem is I still need to manually calculate the amount of money I need to pay all of those expenses. That also prevents me from really making much use of the tags to actually group my expenses into meaningful categories either. That is, I am not using tags for their most useful purpose.

Ideally what I had hoped for I think was quite simple:

1. Tags (stay as tags) = Subscriptions, Bills, Debts etc.
2. Accounts = Filter

With:

Account 1 - "Monthtly" Expenses = $xxxx
Account 2 - "Yearly" Expenses = $xxxx

etc.

I might try and clone this myself and do it myself. I don't think it's really quite that difficult to achieve.

Basically the app just needs an option to group/filter by a single new variable (called 'account') and only show the cost expenses for that account. That's it. All the amazing stuff you've already done is still there. This shouldn't break or change anything at all, except allowing a user to tie an expense to an account (filter) and then view the total cost on that filter.

[825i]

I've checked #577 and maybe I don't see it, but could you explain then how I would get the same functionality with the existing tags? Ideally with me still being able to use tags in a meaningful way.

[DennisBauer]

What I mean with #577 is that you could just go ahead and create 2 tags, one for each account. If you then check the sum of spendings for the tag "account1" you see how much you're spending from that account. The same applies to the other. You can still have other tags like bills, entertainment, insurances, ... added to the same expenses to group them as well and also see how much you spend on these categories. At least that's how I imagined it when building tags, they should be flexible enough to fulfill different use cases people have. What do you think?

[825i]

I mean I am not crazy about the idea and it kind of defeats the purpose of tags but I suppose it would be 'good enough'.

[DennisBauer]

Thanks for confirming, nevertheless your request is valid, and I'll keep it open. Even though I'll focus on #577 first as this feature request could build on top of it.