[GNC] Recent changes regarding transactions

Stephen M. Butler kg7je at arrl.net
Sun Feb 8 16:18:48 EST 2026


On 2/7/26 14:11, Liz wrote:
> On Sat, 7 Feb 2026 12:28:24 -0800 (PST)
> Patrick James via gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
>
>> To the commentary of "time waster," I cannot speak for your personal
>> situation, your workflow, but what I can say is that many people have
>> reported that the autofill feature is a "time saver." If we took the
>> sum of all the "time saved" and subtracted all the sum of all the
>> "time wasted," I would bet that the total "time saved" is greater,
>> thus the autofill feature is a time saver when averaged over all
>> users.
> This autofill feature remains contentious. Suggestions on how to
> improve it would help overall.
>
> Personally I would turn it off if that option was available.
>
> Liz

I love it.  It has lead me to clean up existing descriptions to reduce 
the plethora of options that are presented.
It does save time for me even though the amounts are rarely the same.  
But it does remember the correct accounts involved.


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