Sigafoos
09-27-2008, 08:00 AM
I love the trends page: I'm the kind of guy who loves to manipulate data to see if I can find anything useful, and in fact have just wasted about 15 minutes playing around instead of doing actual work (thanks, Mint!)
But the Trends and SpendSpace graphs have a few omissions that make them much less useful than they should be. I've talked about wanting a credit card payment option in the SpendSpace elsewhere, but my biggest concern is that I can't get a trend pie chart for the current month: even clicking the 'This Month' button changes it from Aug 1 - Sept 1. It's September 27 right now: that's a significant portion of data that's missing. Even clicking 'All time' doesn't count this month!
I've tried to do a workaround by using the SpendSpace graphs to see this month, but that only gives me one category at a time, so if I want to see how much I've spent on Shopping and Electronics/Software specifically I have to enter it twice. Then there's no way to search my purchases for that month by clicking on the bar (like I can in the Trends pie), so I have to go back to the Trends section, drill down, then generally edit the url of the Transactions page I'm sent to (because as far as I can tell that's the only way to manually change dates)...
The amount of entry points for data in Mint is great, and one of my favorite features. But access to them is segmented and sometimes cut off entirely for reasons I can't understand.
But the Trends and SpendSpace graphs have a few omissions that make them much less useful than they should be. I've talked about wanting a credit card payment option in the SpendSpace elsewhere, but my biggest concern is that I can't get a trend pie chart for the current month: even clicking the 'This Month' button changes it from Aug 1 - Sept 1. It's September 27 right now: that's a significant portion of data that's missing. Even clicking 'All time' doesn't count this month!
I've tried to do a workaround by using the SpendSpace graphs to see this month, but that only gives me one category at a time, so if I want to see how much I've spent on Shopping and Electronics/Software specifically I have to enter it twice. Then there's no way to search my purchases for that month by clicking on the bar (like I can in the Trends pie), so I have to go back to the Trends section, drill down, then generally edit the url of the Transactions page I'm sent to (because as far as I can tell that's the only way to manually change dates)...
The amount of entry points for data in Mint is great, and one of my favorite features. But access to them is segmented and sometimes cut off entirely for reasons I can't understand.