Allow Adding Categories instead of AI functionalities
Please, Allow us a Toggle optiom in Settings menu to enable or disable machine learning and AI functionalities
Case 1: (Default)
Action - Enable AI Functionalities
Outcome - Categories and Sub-Categories remain Fixed (Categories can't be added or deducted by the user)
Case 2:
Action - Disable AI Functionalities
Outcome - Categories and Sub-Categories Become Flexible (Categories should be easily extended or deducted by the user themselves)
I understand "the reason for which new categories cannot be added as the app uses machine learning that works with structured data. If users added categories themselves the data would no longer be properly interpreted by the app and its features would return statistics that are not as accurate or relevant.
But in reality, 85% of the time, the app either recognize wrong Categories or don't recognize at all, hence this AI functionality to automatically recognize the category is useless for in the first place + due to it's presence I can't even add Categories by myself which is really irritating
Please Consider my request
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I'll wait for your response
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Anton Zelenin commented
I totally agree with you. I bought this app several years ago and during the time of its usage I needed this feature several times. Today I understood there's no good place for a new type of my expense. No existing category is suitable for me but I'm allowed only to create a sub-sub-category. And it's quite frustrating.
Moreover, I insert all my records manually so I believe the ML feature, which support mentions all the time, is not even in use for me, so your suggestion looks very suitable in my situation.
And as a software engineer myself I understand that most likely there IS a solution to this request even though there's some ML algorithm that relies on hardcoded data and it's a shame support just keeps declining these types of requests without considering the change more seriously.
Budgetbakers, here are a couple more thoughts on how you can implement it:
1. Give the option to create new sub-categories but show a warning that the ML feature/features will not work with them.
2. Collect a larger dataset to make your model recognize a wider set of categories.
3. Collect data for the dataset from the application itself. Users will manually assign correct categories to their expenses, so just keep metadata and train the model using it. -
Kamil Wójcik commented
"The reason for which new categories cannot be added as the app uses machine learning that works with structured data. If users added categories themselves the data would no longer be properly interpreted by the app and its features would return statistics that are not as accurate or relevant."
:D
That's sad, but we can not expect any other answer. One thing is AI which many of us just hate. The other thing is " the app and its features would return statistics that are not as accurate or relevant.".
There are some (sub-)categories, that are hardcoded in statistics:
Housing -> Mortgage
Vehicle -> Leasing
Financial expenses -> DebtsThose 3 categories CAN NOT be touched, because they are used in statistics (Credit).
Also the whole category Incomes should not be touched. It complicates a little bit our case.
However, I am aware of it and still - I ABSOLUTELY AGREE - users should be able to manage categories and sub-categories by themselves.