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I will soon start working on moneyGuru 1.6, which will mostly be about straightening out budgeting and adding more flexibility to it.

Budgeting: The current system is not flexible enough, and it also doesn't give enough feedback. The "budgeting" section in the account info panel will go away, and will be replaced by a "budget" checkbox in the transaction info panel.

Yep, budgeting will work very similarly to scheduled transactions. Budget transactions will be scheduled at regular interval and the amount of the scheduled instances will be offset by the transactions that are occurring during the scheduled period that touch the same income/expense account. For example, if you already had a 400 $ monthly budget on groceries with a target on your Credit Card account, it will be translated to a scheduled (monthly) transaction with a 400$ amount going from Credit Card to Groceries, with the "Budget" box checked.

The budgeting system will behave similarly to how it does now, but instead of just showing in the graphs and in the account sheets, it will also show up in the transaction tables, exactly like scheduled transactions also show up, except that their amount field will be read-only (because it's a calculated value). The info panel for the transaction will be editable however, as it will show the original budget amount.

The edition of the budget transaction will also be like scheduled transaction, allowing you to modify that budget after a certain date, or just for one occurrence.

One interesting that this new system will also bring is the possibility to create a "split budget", so you can spread the budget to multiple asset/liability targets.

New view: A new view will be added that show scheduled and budgeted "root" transaction (one transaction per schedule, rather than one per occurrence like in other tables), allowing you to easily see start date, stop dates, next occurrence, budget remaining, stuff like that.

Auto-save: Copies of your document will be saved at regular interval, so if something goes wrong and you hadn't saved for a while, you won't have lost everything.

Budget columns in Profit & Loss: 2 new columns will be added in the Profit & Loss view: "Budget" and "Remaining", which will show the budgeting information for the current date range.

Filtering in the account view: At the moment, typing something in the filter bar when you're in the account view takes you to the Transaction view, making it hard to look for particular transactions in a particular account. I will fix that.

Auto-completion: I'm not sure why, auto-completion in the Account view was designed so that only values from the current account would be considered for inclusion in the auto-completion list. Therefore, if you create a transaction with a payee that you already entered, but that doesn't touch the account you are currently in, it won't be included in the auto-completion list. I can't, for the life of me, remember what was the rationale behind this decision, so I'll remove that limitation.