Using Account Codes

[Jeff Kletsky]

I'll stick up for the approach -- In California, we have to deal with 
paying sales tax by state, county, and then occasionally by municipality 
(and sometimes worse in some municipalities with internal tax 
districts). For example:

Liabilities:Taxes:Sales Tax:San Francisco
Liabilities:Taxes:Sales Tax:San Mateo
Liabilities:Taxes:Sales Tax:Santa Clara
Liabilities:Taxes:Sales Tax:Santa Clara:Campbell
Liabilities:Taxes:Sales Tax:Santa Cruz
Liabilities:Taxes:Sales Tax:Santa Cruz:Capitola
Liabilities:Taxes:Sales Tax:Santa Cruz:Santa Cruz
Liabilities:Taxes:Sales Tax:Santa Cruz:Scotts Valley
Liabilities:Taxes:Sales Tax:Santa Cruz:Watsonville

After going cross-eyed last night dealing with filling out the 2009 
forms, I'm now thinking that remembering and typing something

"stscz"

is a lot easier than

"l:t:s:santa cr"

I'm liking that idea a lot...

...yes, there are ways I could "artificially" name my accounts so it 
would be easier as well.

Is it worth revamping the auto-complete function? Jury is out on that one.

-jeff

On 2/1/2010 2:04 PM, Derek Atkins wrote:
>> There is a small reason. In some cases we can save keystrokes with
>> shortcut account codes: e.g. with `1gr<Tab>' (for Groceries) and
>> `1gy<Tab>' (for Gym). With the normal method it would be `ex:gr<Tab>'
>> and `ex:gy<Tab>'.
>>      
> Is it really worth this much trouble to save 2 keystrokes?  Especially
> when you have to spend all that extra time to enter in all the codes??
>
>