How can I Exclude certain accounts from a Watchlist?
Hi there -- This is a great question! Currently, there isn't a way to exclude specific accounts from a watchlist. However, I think that would be a great function to have added. I'm going to turn this post into an Idea thread, that way other users can vote to increase demand for this functionality.
@TGP As you'll notice, there's now a "Vote" option at the start of your topic, so others can lend their support as well. Thanks for the suggestion!
Today, if a transaction is marked "Ignore from Reports", it will not show up in a watch list calculation. Please provide a per-watchlist configuration option that allows for ignoring of the transaction's ignore status. It is often helpful to ignore the transactions from the overall picture, but get granular and see them in a hand crafted watch list.
Hello @timmyc123,
Thanks for posting this to the Community!
I have gone ahead and turned this into an Idea post so that other Users can vote on it. Please be sure to add your vote as well!
-Coach Natalie
upvoted this. I'd like to exclude a tagged expense and/or have the ability to exclude it manually from Watchlist but keep seeing them in Reports.
Here's a mockup for clarity
Thanks
Examples:
I kinda ignored the Watchlist feature when it came out but recently (around 6 months ago) realized how incredibly useful it is. But the ability to not being able to track hidden transactions (e.g. Investment Transactions) through Watchlist is a bummer. For now, this is a top priority item for me personally.
Like a lot of us, I have dividend investments that pay me monthly/quarterly but those dividends get reinvested automatically as a separate transaction the same/next day. I completely understand why we want to exclude these from Spending Plan and the Reports but I would still like to track exactly how much Dividend Income I am receiving each month and over the last 12 months through the Watchlist feature.
My use case is a little different from the title of this thread but I think it goes hand in hand.
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In the meantime, if anyone is looking for a roundabout way to get all their dividend income, you can open up the new Income and Expense report and click on the Dividend Income row even though it's displaying $0 as your Dividend Income. Once you click on that row, you should be able to see all your Dividend Income transactions, although they will be greyed out. You can then download that list as a CSV and then filter for transactions that are > 0 in excel to get the total value of your dividends for the date range that you used for the report.