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Ah thanks for the suggestions. That's something I've been thinking about a bit, I think it's a pain to enter expenses all the time. How do you feel about an email reminder in place of a push notification?

Email reminders could also work well.

My thinking with mobile push notifications would be you tap the notification and it takes you straight to a simple UI where you punch in the values.

It might be harder to reduce the friction as low as this with email notifications but it could work just as well. A simple link could work, or one step further is having a feature where you can specify expenditure and tags in the reply to an email in a certain format that's parsed by your app e.g:

$8, work, commuting $4.50, lunch

(Values in example may seem low because I'm British but dollar/pound symbol is neither here nor there in this case!)

Ultimately I would love to do a mobile app and it really wouldn't be that difficult to build, I guess I just wanted to gauge interest before dedicating more time. That's a really interesting suggestion about the email reply, I'm going to think about that a bit more!

I'd like to reply to my email with the expense and then tags on separate lines beneath it.

* -> email.

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