Simpler way to input description than a text field (categories / icons)

[jancborchardt]

@brennannovak brought this up: What would be cool to make transactions more easy to remember would be to add a »Category« like Food, Sports, Hotel, etc.

Then in the list, maybe left of each transaction, would appear a corresponding icon to easily identify transactions.

Of course this would be optional to not have it blocking the flow. What do you think @xMartin?

[xMartin]

Nice. But no :)

I don't see the benefit being big enough and it being useful for all users to add the necessary noise to the UI. But let's keep collecting these ideas and get back to them when we start field testing.

[jancborchardt]

Here’s the mockup:

• It wouldn’t be a separate field / additional noise, but a prior step to the description
• There’s 6 categories: 🍴 Food, 🛍 Shopping, 🏡 Rent, 🚂 Travel, 💸 Direct, ❓ Other
• Different ways of possible interaction:
  • Like the mockup shows it, with it turning into a dropdown and you can still add info, so it becomes "🍴 Food candle light dinner"
  • Pressing e.g. "🍴 Food" will prepopulate the description field with "🍴 Food" and you can then edit it freeform.
  • All the ones except "❓ Other" would just be radio options, and only "Other" would switch to a free form input field. Simple but also a bit boring?