Auto-detect category by querying previous expenses
For example, imagine I go to a restaurant called "Alice and Bob".
1st time I add an expense, I type "Alice and Bob" in the Description and select "Dining out" as category.
2nd time, I type "Alice and Bob" the app may select "Dining out" by itself.
Splitwise is still awesome without this feature, but it would definitely be something nice to have!
Nuno Rebelo
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Thanks for the suggestion! Yep, this definitely makes sense – right now, we auto-detect certain words like “dinner”, but we don’t do any intelligent matching based on your past expenses. I’m not sure how technically involved this would be, but I’ll add it to our list of possible improvements for the future :)
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Nuno Rebelo
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Even if it would just do it for the last few entries, it would be really useful, in my opinion.
Thank you for taking it into consideration!
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Anonymous
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This doesn't seem to actually work. I type Safeway for most of them and I have to change them all manually to Groceries.
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Dhwaneet
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Every day while writing vegetables or milk, we have to choose category. Give an option to select a category automatically based on previous text.
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Anonymous
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An adverse effect of this is that when you already set the category it automatically changes to another. Isn't it possible to disable this feature when you have already selected a category?
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James Crosswell
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This doesn't seem to work for me... maybe I've misunderstood how you've implemented this though. I assumed it would use the same category as the most recent expense with the same description.
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Anonymous
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It seems like this already happens when using the "quick add" feature, shouldn't it be possible to simply extend it to expenses added the normal way?
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James Crosswell
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I often buy groceries and in the description I type the name of the store I bought them from: "Billa". I then have to set the category to "groceries". The first time I do this, that makes sense (the category certainly isn't obvious from the expense description).
However the next time I buy stuff from Billa, if I type "Billa" for the expense description, it would be great if Splitwise realised this is an expense that I've recorded previously and if it automatically detected/assigned the expense category (to be the same category that I used last time I entered an expense called "Billa").