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Forgive me if this has been mentioned above and for it's length ( I did read through them all, but you never know what the eyes miss)

It would be great to have a "printer friendly" version of your budget. Taking that even further, would be different "printer friendly" versions for whatever types of views end up in the live budget functionality. For example, it would be great to print the standard Geezeo budget layout, but if you folks are adding multiple ways to view ones budget, (say pie charts or whatever) those would also be nice to print.

Real life application you wonder?

This came to me as I was "discussing" money with my wife. She tends to be the budget breaker since I manage the money. Although I try very hard to keep her up to date (Yes, this includes setting up her mobile phone to check everything from budgets on Geezeo to our direct bank account) she still slips up from time to time.

My point is, some individuals partners will never check this website, regardless of how much you beg them to be more invloved.

Having printer friendly versions would be a nice thing for this situation. Login to Geezeo in the morning, print the budget, place it someplace they can't miss it. Have them take it with them, etc. This will also increase their accountabilty, as each and everyday one could say "you know what's int he budget"

On a side note: Schools are making an attempt to bring budgeting and general economics back in to early childhood programs. (THANK GOD)

Teachers could use the Geezeo budget to track each students progress( as long as you implement manual transactions into budgets of course, since they may not be using real money for the lesson. It tends to be play money :) ) and print fun colorful for reports for them to study. Since most schools will not allow access to un-authorized sites, the teacher would use the accounts him/herself and let the students play with the reports. You could even plant the Geezeo branding all over that sucker, then once those kids hit XX age, they'll already be part of the Geezeo crew.

~Drayton

Sounds great. For some reason, it sounds like one of those ideas that when read a loud, sounds like a quick fix. Then you sit in front of the machine to code it, and you realize you undertaken a week long project!

Nonetheless, I do hope it makes it's way in there, somewhere down the line!

Thanks Pete! – Drayton Sawyer, on September 30, 2008 20:27

I'm a tiny bit confused. Did this get added into the final build?