Yesterday we pushed an update to the Google Sheets Tiller Money Feeds add-on main menu to give you quick and easy access to the features you use the most! Now from the Extensions menu you can access split transactions, AutoCat, manual accounts, and more.
Use âLaunchâ to open the add-on sidebar and access features from the sidebar menu, otherwise choose a feature and youâre off and running!
The add-on may prompt you to sign in prior to executing your selected action if your session has expired.
Let us know if you have any questions or feedback!
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This makes splitting transactions so much easier. Thank you!
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Awesome! My one suggestion after Split Transaction was moved to the sidebar was going to be to bring it back to the drop-down menu instead of buried in the sidebar. So thank you for going ahead and making that change!
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Neat. Also thanks for the home links in the Feeds sidebar!
I do think itâs a bit confusing to have two different âtoolsâ but I canât think of a different way to title them so I see why 
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Hi Heather
I cannot access the website tillerhq.com from any device. I get the attached error message. I am not running cloudflare.
Can you please take a look at the attached and let me know what to do?
Thanks
Bob Wegman
@wegs220 weâre working on it
You can access your linked spreadsheets directly via https://sheets.tillerhq.com/auth/login, which is not impacted by this outage.
So much easier to split stuff now. Thank-you!!!
I love that you are streamlining the UX (computer-geek-speak for User eXperoience) by Huffman Coding (computer-geek-speak for making heavily used commands easier to execute).
Can you go one step further and put a big âIdiot Buttonâ (computer-geek-speak for âDonât Make Me Thinkâ) to further ease my cognitive load on start-up. For some reason, remembering the (arcane to me) sequence below is not well mapped to âLaunchâ or âFillâ. I just want a âGet Startedâ button.
- Load Tiller sheet by clicking bookmark on bookmark bar
- Remember to click Extensions
- Wonder why I canât find what I want, and either go looking elsewhere or
- Re-remember that it takes a while for Tiller stuff to appear
- Read 2 choices. Think about them.
- Choose âTiller Money Feedsâ
- Hope that my mouse movements slide over to open sub-menu (because I HATE using mice⌠Iâm a keyboard shortcut junkie)
- Scan them all, then conclude that âLaunchâ is what I want
- Wait for a bit
- Get what I want⌠a menu that answers everyoneâs favorite question âWhat can I do now?â.
Iâd love it if the âLaunch all Tiller stuffâ idiot button would prevent me from all the friction in the above list. Heck, Iâd like it even more if the idiot button could press itself so that I wouldnât even need to.
If my (lossy) memory serves me, this would be code like this
function onLoad {Create and display idiot-button}
function michaelVisionedOnLoad {onLoad(); if(first_time) { idiot-button.click(); first_time = false; }
Thoughts?
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Thanks for your feedback here @michaelrwolfseattle !
We stuck with Launch because that is language most folks are used to with this add-on and makes the most sense in all contexts in which customers will interact with it
I probably didnât summarize my thoughts as well as I could. Let me try to shorten it.
I do not dislike the term âlaunchâ.
I dislike that I must perform the launch myself (i.e. âsome assembly requiredâ instead of âTiller comes fully assembledâ).
I dislike that âLaunchâ is hidden, and that it is 2 levels down a menu structure.
When I open my Tiller sheet, I want all-things-tiller to automagically be there, or at least immediately visible. Having to dig for it adds friction and cognitive load that prevents me from getting busy.
Two ways to reduce that friction would beâŚ
- Have me think less â âLaunchâ is immediately visible (on a button, say in $A$1, or a clickable-blue-URL, or something else)
- Have me not think at all â âLaunchâ happens without my intervention, automagically when I* open the sheet.
I want to see âFillâ as soon as possible. âFillâ is a financial action. Everything before that is friction (for the human) of the kind that computers do better.
I hope this is more clear without sounding too negative. I love Tillerâs basic premise, and am looking to remove some rough edges.
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Thanks for clarifying. That makes sense. I think weâre a little bound by what Google will allow us to do here though with regard to launching the add-on or executing some function within the add-on, but Iâll keep your feedback for future consideration.
I love the fact that Tiller loads the transactions with the help of âFill Sheetsâ option in the âTiller Money Feedsâ extension menu. Saves lot of time in updating all our expenses.
I personally prefer not to Auto-Fill as soon as the Bank Feed gets refreshed, as I have some custom scripts running in my sheet. So, I always use the âFill Sheetsâ option in the âTiller Money Feedsâ extension menu. And I echo with @michaelrwolfseattle that the âFill Sheetsâ option is nested two levels down the Extensions menu. I understand it is just 3 mouse clicks away. But, It would be great if we could have a Keyboard Shortcut to fill the sheets, rather than using the mouse to click to navigate through that menu.
I have been using Keyboard Shortcuts to run Macros by updating the Manifest file (âappsscript.jsonâ) in Apps Script. But, I wasnât able to setup Keyboard Shortcut to run the Extension menu, as we need to pass the Extension Name and Extension Function Name which Iâm not aware of.
Hereâs the screenshot of the code that I triedâŚ
Would be great if anyone can help with these names, so that we can setup Keyboard Shortcuts to fill the sheets easily.
Thanks,
Raju
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YES please!!! I use the fill sheets every day and it needs to be liberated. Using the extension drop down is a PIA to hit correctly the first or second time. Clicking around until you can get to a side bar that offers âhomeâ and then âfillâ is even worse.
Please.
