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New release 1.3.3 is in the Market. I has been distracted from implementing recurring transactions to make it possible to create budgets based on multiple categories and projects. Also added small widget and Russian locale. Made some minor performance improvements and layout changes.

Here is how budget screen looks now:

You can select multiple categories (1) and/or multiple projects (2). If you select ‘Ease conditions’ (3) then transactions with either appropriate categories OR project(s) will be included into this budget. Otherwise transactions will be filtered by both categories AND projects. ‘Include sub-categories’ works as before – either include transactions from sub-categories into the budget or not.

I hope this feature will make budgets more flexible and convenient to use.

Financisto 1.3.2 has been released.

• Database restore has been fixed again – account type doesn’t change after restore now #20
• Total on budget list screen is quite convenient #24
• Some minor improvements and bugfixes #10, #25, #26

I’m going to start working on recurring transactions for the next release.

Database restore has been fixed in 1.3.1, sorry for any inconvenience!

Financisto has been updated to 1.3.0. There are a number of new features and improvements:

• There are now 2 separate account types for Debit and Credit cards
• For credit card account you can specify limit amount and it will be shown in the account list
• CSV export has been improved – date/time format has been changed to ISO 8601 standard, parent category has been included into the format
• Date/time now formatted according to system settings
• Calculator bug has been fixed
• And some more cosmetic UI changes and bug-fixes has been made

After initial release I found that account list layout has been broken on some devices with Android 1.5 (HTC Hero for example). Temporary fix has been applied.

Don’t forget that there is now Bug Tracker available – please don’t hesitate to submit bug reports and feature requests.

It’s been a while.. New release of Financisto 1.2.9 is in the Market with ‘CSV Export’ and some improvements and bugfixes. If you own a Motorola Droid please check and let me know if the bug with Pin screen when clicking ‘Back’ button disappeared.

The format of CSV file is a subject to change and I’m open to discussion.

Starting from the very first version Financisto supports attributes for categories. Attributes are additional properties of a category. An attribute can be some text, number, a value from a list or a boolean flag. You can create any number of attributes for any particular category. If you have a child category then all attributes from the parent category will be automatically inherited.

Use attributes to make special notes, attached to a transaction under a particular category. For example: imagine you have a category ‘Car’ and sub-category ‘Fuel’. You can create an number attribute for the ‘Fuel’ sub-category and name it ‘Mileage’. Now when you pay for the fuelling at the gas station, you create a transaction under ‘Car->Fuel’ category and you can put your current mileage in the attribute field. The attribute can be ‘Litres’ as well to note how much fuel you buy or a text attribute with the name ‘Gas station’ to note what gas station you used.

Some other examples:

• Text attribute ‘Movie name’ under ‘Leisure->Movies’ category
• Checkbox attribute ‘Tips included’ under ‘Restaurants’ category
• List attribute ‘Month’ with values ‘Jan;Feb;Mar;…’

There are more plans to utilize attributes in the future releases, but they are useful in the current state as well.