Jeff, All three of those would be nice options. On that last one, office apps usually have a Find along with a more powerful Find & Replace as separate dialogs with their own shortcuts. (you don’t have to replace if you don’t want to, but the Find is more powerful in that iteration). I conceive something similar would be useful for finding transactions/splits of a certain value quickly, but retaining the full power for when you need it.
I agree, I rarely use ‘Description’ and would prefer at the least, it remember what I last used. (which is almost always `Memo` for me) I’ll offer you a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel that once you get through your conversion, you’ll probably be using Find much less often. I used it extensively the first 6 months I was entering data, now, maybe once a month at best. I *find* that entering transactions each and every single day, rather then letting them pile up, also helps reduce the need to research via Find. While many institutions only offer 90-days of online history, you could probably write, call, or visit in person (if possible) for a full history. Expect maybe they’ll charge you for the favor, though they might do it for free if they just export a file to you rather than send a printout. (and you probably don’t want the paper and manual data entry anyway) Regards, Adrien > On May 1, 2019, at 12:55 PM, Jeff Albrecht <je...@rodaw.com> wrote: > > The major pain, for me at least, is not so much the ^F but the constant > changing of the 'Find Transaction' options from 'Description' to 'Value' It's > the only way I've used ^F so far - Value and has credits or debits -> equal > to. I can see that flexibility of 'Find Transaction' will be very useful at > some time. In my current marathon accounting balancing sessions (Still > converting from Quicken*) I'm sure I've entered ^F nearly a hundred times or > more. > > How about something like some combinations of these; > - A Boolean check box to save the options on close in the "Find Transaction' > window. > -- Perhaps another check box for windows to remain open. > - A preference to save the last used options in the 'Find Transaction' window. > - An additional 'quick find' initiated by ^F that uses the value->has credits > or debits->equal to and move the full find to menu initiated only. > > > > * ProTip; Don't procrastinate more than three months to import new .OFX > transactions as many institutions only save three months available online. > > - Jeff _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
