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[GH-ISSUE #3043] [Feature] Ability to see Recent Moves in the Budget #90855
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Originally created by @alex-t-grey on GitHub (Jul 12, 2024).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/actualbudget/actual/issues/3043
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Pitch: what problem are you trying to solve?
As a User, I would like to see recent budget moves such as money assigned to a category or moved between categories, so that I can better understand the current state of my budget or potentially revert previous moves.
The undo function is useful for correcting an immediate step, but is not helpful for reviewing all moves that were made. It also does not work across sessions or devices.
Describe your ideal solution to this problem
Have a popup/modal that displays all recent budget actions for the past 30 days, with the ability to filter between "Budgeted" (money moved to/from To Be Budgeted) or "Moved" (money moved between categories), or view all. This could be another item in the month's drop down menu, or it's own button/toggle similar to notes. Name of the feature could be "Recent Moves", "Move History", "Budget Activity" or something similar.
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This type of feature should be fairly intuitive if named properly, though references to it should be added to the documentation.
@github-actions[bot] commented on GitHub (Jul 12, 2024):
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@joel-jeremy commented on GitHub (Jul 17, 2024):
A budget activity/history would be a very good and useful feature to have. I could see this log be used in some sort of a report to visualize how users move money throughout the month.
One simple implementation that comes to mind is to leverage the notes of the categories or introduce a new note for the Budgeted column that resets every month. Every movement to/from the Budgeted amount will be logged on the notes automatically.
On the other hand, having an activity table would be a more powerful option. It would enable the app to sort of reverse the movements of the budgets and will be easier to use in a report.
@nakermann1973 commented on GitHub (Jul 28, 2025):
This is the same as #2602 - The way I see it is this is asking for a custom notes field per month for each category in the monthly view, with the following possible behavior:
I have upvoted both feature requests
@alex-t-grey commented on GitHub (Jul 28, 2025):
@nakermann1973 its turns out that "Transfer to another category" moves are already recorded in the month's note. Though it only records moves when clicking that action (or the "cover overspending" action which is really the same thing). I don't know if that was implemented before or after I made this feature request.
I don't really follow why a second note section per category would be necessary. I also disagree that this is the same feature request as the one you linked. I guess it could be possible to fulfil both requests with a single solution, but they're two different user stories.