Bills & Income comments (Q Mac)

QuickPeter

Jacobs, some time ago you said
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jacobs SuperUser, Mac Beta Beta

January 21

Unfortunately and somewhat inexplicably, it's not possible to set the Memo column to appear in the Bills & Income screen.

There is an existing Idea thread (request for feature/enhancement) for adding the Memo field to that screen; you should click on this link to visit that thread and add your vote for it (in the yellow box under the first post). "

I never got round to voting, and I'm disappointed with myself for that.

Anyway, it looks like that a partial fix has been introduced.

I've  just noticed in the Bills & Income window, Edit all Instances of a transaction, you see "addTags/memo/action".

I've just used it to add a note/memo to one of my recurring debits.
However, I still would have preferred a column where we can post a comment that can always be seen/visible.

QuickPeter

jacobs

@QuickPeter I think that's always been present in editing scheduled transactions. The problem, for people who depend on the Bills & Income screen, is that you can't add a column to view the Memo field, as you can in transaction registers. (I do most of my work in my account register screens, so I don't spend much time on Bills & Income, but we all use the tools of Quicken differently to suit our needs or preferred workflows.) It seems odd, since Control-clicking on any column heading pops up the expected list of columns which you can show or hide — except that Memo/Notes is not one of them. I can't think of a good reason why it has been excluded. The Idea post has a a status of "Under Consideration", so it means the developers have received the feedback from the thread; they haven't committed to implementing it yet, but neither have they rejected it. 

So don't beat yourself up for not voting in the past, and go to the Idea thread and add your vote. More votes can and do help push things higher on the developers' roadmap.