[Feature] Filtering payees that have no rules

[psybers]

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Pitch: what problem are you trying to solve?

Especially for new users that have imported a lot of past history, it takes quite awhile to build up a good set of rules for categorizing payees. As you add more and more rules, when you have hundreds of existing payees, it can be difficult to see what payees still need a rule added.

Describe your ideal solution to this problem

You can currently filter payees by typing in a string. I propose another way to filter: by those payees with or without rules. Then you can filter down to just your payees that have no rules yet and focus on adding rules for those.

This could be done via the UI (a button, checkbox, etc.) or by adding a filter string such as "has:rule". The second approach could be combined with the existing filter, so you could search for things like "has:rule amaz" to get all payees that match "amaz" that also have a rule. And then there would be need for negating it somehow, such as "not has:rule". This syntax is inspired by the search capabilities of GMail.

Or you can combine the two approaches: have the filter implemented via the search string, but then have a button (or two) that automatically populates the search field with "not has:rule" when clicked.

Teaching and learning

If it is a UI element, it probably is easily discoverable. If it is a search string, you will need to update the documentation to document the query syntax. You might want to provide a hint under the filter box that they can search for "not has:rule" etc. If you use the combined approach, it probably self-documents.

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