Ability to hide zero dollar budget categories
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Simon
I have some categories that I only need to budget for once a year, like taxes. So every month, there are some categories where the budget amount is zero dollars, and it makes the list a bit hard to read, especially when I have lots of categories. It would be good if there was an option to hide all categories with zero dollars so it is easier to analyze the budget.
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Jonathan Lovelace
As currently implemented in the "beta budgeting feature", when I have the "Hide Categories With No Activity And No Budget" option set, while I see 4 categories have been hidden due to no activity and no assigned budget." at the bottom of the (historical-period) page, I also see several categories with zero budget and zero activity that are
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hidden. Comparing screenshots of the list of budgets with the option turned on and off reveals that the line-items that are hidden are the categories for which no value, zero or non-zero, has been set, and that is not
what I expected (based on this feature request) this option to do--I expected it to hide budget items for which I had explicitly set a budget of $0 and for which there is no activity in this period (possibly only if there are also no rolled-over funds).
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Sahil Talwar
+1. This is especially helpful for people who have migrated from another platform which had a bunch of categories and hid $0 budgets by default (in my case, Mint). Thanks!
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Attila Komaromi
Just want to add, if the categories can also be sorted (i.e. from highest spend to lowest) it would also make it so much easier to view my spending at a glance in the budget view.
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Rui
one more vote for this too. My list is too long with some of the categories having 0 as budgeted value
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Attila Komaromi
Yes, this is one of the few things that I really want! I have an "everything else" group and I'll have categories in there for things I don't budget for, and many things in there will never get spending, so the empty rows just sit there cluttering up my budget screen.
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Armin Vosough
If not hidden, maybe push the categories with $0 spend and $0 budgeted to the bottom of the list? That would make it easier to focus on the relevant categories.