So far I love this program and it mostly does exactly what I need. Great!
After using it for a while I think I've build up a list of suggestions. Let's see if you find something useful to add to iCompta. Here we go.
-Highlight of budgets: I use plenty of them to track some monthly and yearly goal. Some are more important than others so I'd love to be able to see them highlighted in some ways (by color, bold font, an outline of some kind, whatever!) No, group them doesn't really fit me
- Give me a slider somewhere to set the font of the whole interface, even better if I can dynamically set it for the budget panel and the transactions panel separately.
- I wouldn't mind having a "stripe" background to optically divide columns while looking at transactions (Like in the detailed view but vertically using maybe the same colors or light gray and white). I honestly find the detailed view a little messy so I never use it, while I find myself sitting a long time in the standard view
- I'd love to see months of past transactions grouped by year, so I can hide for example year 2010 cleaning up a lot of screen estate. If needed one can click on 2010, open it and then open the needed month(s)
- Please align the text of number of operations, income, expenses, and net in the transaction view of hidden (closed?) months (upper right corner of the transaction view). Grey text on grey background it's not so readable by itself but aligning the text in columns would help a lot eyes (sorry I'm into graphic design
)- so far I can highlight singular transactions. Please let me choose which color to use for each one.
- I like statistics! So pleas let me print them especially the detailed view
Speaking of printing, I guess that the printing layouts in general need to be spruced up a little - I want to be able to exclude an account from the total iCompta shows me. I want to keep track of amounts I own but I won't have at my disposition for a long time to come
(like retiring funds for example, you have them only when you stop working or change job)- new kind of account: here they are called "conto deposito". In this kind of account you deposit cash (it has a base interest rate) and then if you want it you can lock an amount of that cash for a fixed period of time at a certain % of interest (higher than the base one). So this new kind of account should:
- define the base interest rate, manage the funds not invested in lines of investment
- let me add some fixed expenses (we have a 3 monthly tax for example on this kind of account and not all of them let you export data)
- let me manage different lines of investment made by an amount, duration, interest rate, taxation rate. Each line drain money from the account up to the available total and then release it in the main account at the end of the investment period. I hope i explained myself
- Interact with my bank account. I need to be able to transfer amounts from the bank account to this new special account. The basics are already implemented in iCompta.
- let me choose the language of iCompta. I often dislike italian translations and most of the time I use English. Don't have me to hack into files, the Preferences panel is the right place (a tad empty and sad at the moment tho)
Well that's it! Anyway good program, keep working on it.
Au revoir
Ivan
