[Feature] Frequency modifier for up to targets

[ColinHebert]

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Pitch: what problem are you trying to solve?

I am trying to replicate a behaviour of YNAB that allows doing a refill budget by $x weekly.

This would, for example, allow you to set a budget for, say, "eating out" over a month based on the number of weeks and re-fill the budget based on the number of weeks in the month.

Describe your ideal solution to this problem

Currently up to is only working "monthly" (implied), I'm wondering whether it'd be possible to have an explicit frequency set:

• #template up to $3 daily - which would be the equivalent to #template up to $84 in February or #template up to $93 in August
• #template up to $50 weekly - which would be the equivalent to #template up to $200 in a month with 4 weeks or #template up to $250 in a month with 5 weeks
• #template up to $100 [monthly] - which is the current behaviour in Actual

In terms of implementation, I'm not sure it'd make sense to have frequency for longer periods of time than monthly.

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[youngcw]

How would you suggest determining if there are 5 weeks or just 4 in a month? The other templates count weeks from a starting day.

[ColinHebert]

That's a really good point.

Maybe the wording should be weekly on Monday, which would allow us to count the number of Mondays in the month.

I'm not sure what a sensible default would be if we wanted just weekly, it could either be the weekday of the first day of the month (I don't know if this would have any strong side effects) or a default to Sunday (I'm not American, but ultimately, when we count the number of weeks, Sunday is just as good as any other day). Alternatively no sensible default could work as well but I think it's a worse option.

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Edit: Thinking it through, the suggestion of "first day of the month" is really bad as it means the budget would be potentially set on two days of the same weeks (end of one month beginning of the other), so I guess picking a default day when not specified is as good as anything.

[youngcw]

@ColinHebert Can you try #3714 and see if it is everything you hoped for?

[Teprifer]

I like weekly on Monday type as it allows for weeklies that are on different days.

[ColinHebert]

Tested and it indeed fixes this. Nicely done @youngcw !

[github-actions]

🎉 This feature has been implemented in #3754 and will be released in the next version. Thanks for sharing your idea! 🎉