Usability Suggestions

[mintfeedback]

After using Mint for a couple days here are some things I would like to see to make it easier to use.

Keyboard Shortcuts

Keyboard shortcuts would be really helpful, like typing 'L' or 'C' with a transaction highlighted would bring up either the label or categorize dialogs.

Categorization

The ability to double click on the category of a transaction to bring up the Categorize dialog would be nice.

Also, on the Categorize dialog, on the top is the checkbox to create a rule to automatically categorize the transaction in the future. The problem is if you change the category the rule doesn't update. It would be nice if when I changed the category of a transaction the Rule updated too that way I could change the category of a transaction as well as set a rule for future transactions without having to bring up the Categorize dialog a second time.

Misc

Some other niceties would be a Rule wizard to create rules without having to select a transaction, and a "Tag Cloud" visualization of the relative frequency of the different tags like Codeplex (as well as a bunch of blogging tools) use.

In addition, having the ability to create a rule to automatically apply a label would be helpful too.

Just my notes on Mint so far. It's an interesting and useful tool that can only get better! Thanks for the hard work!

Mike

[Damon]

Thanks! I really like the suggestions in the categorization area.

[divorcetheworld]

Keyboard shortcuts and those categorization improvement suggestions would b great. I hate having to select a transaction and scroll all the way to the top of the screen to hit the categorize button.

[mlebarron]

There's a button at the bottom too :)

I believe a better way to do this is in the works anyway. They're just evaluating some different ways to do it, and then will implement what works best.

[rsarver]

Please add another vote for the keyboard shortcuts or inline editing with double-click features. The lack of usability is becoming a show stopper for me. The application depends on properly categorized transactions, but its too much of a pain to fix them right now.

Please fix it soon because I like Mint otherwise.

[Damon]

Double-click editing will be available shortly;) I will be doing a post on Monday or Tuesday about some new features we're rolling out.

[jplumey]

How about being able to drag a transaction into a category tag cloud to tag? This would be faster than going through another dialog to assign a category.

[Damon]

A very interesting idea....

[BluePhoenix]

I think this is a great idea.

And I might be biased by how GMail has it's short cuts set up, however, I think it would be nice to have:

x to select the current selected item
d to mark (or unmark) as duplicate

Enter to show/hide the "Edit details" panel
n to add a note

(And as mentioned above)
c to category
l for labels


Thanks, it is a great site.

[sheriwx]

At this point, I would just be happy if mint.com worked as a basic budgeting tool. ING isn't working, Amex is fritzing, the budget "today" line is gone, the budget is in a huge mega font on a page other than the main one, and the budgeting green bars never turn yellow. Really, all I want is the regular, working mint of two months ago to come back.