I’ve been using Mint to track my money for a few months now. Most of you reading this are cool people who have been using Mint since before I heard about it, though, so I won’t bother explaining how the service works. I guess I’m supposed to set up budgets or something, and if you don’t it kinda guesses based on your past expenses. Then it alerts you when you go over-budget in a category. Which is nice sometimes, but other times you get things like this:
Okay, so ummm... what am I supposed to do about it? If I could have payed only twenty-three dollars I would have. Maybe they need an “e-mail a complaint about this to your congressman” button or something? :)
October 26, 12:01 pm
The alerts can indeed be a bother. That’s one area where some more customization would be useful, and is a place that Mint could improve on.
Every month, I get an alert about my mortgage, because it’s greater than $1000 (and I have alerts set up to let me know about large transactions like that). It would be great if I could white-list my mortgage payment so I didn’t get that email every month.
I really like Mint. Hopefully you are enjoying it too. I’ll have used it a year in January.