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I've been using GnuCash for about a week now. I'm just a regular dude with a wife and we're trying to get a better handle on our money. I've never used Quicken or anything other than Excel to manage my money so this is a fairly new idea to me. I'm using GnuCash 2.0.1. Off the bat I'd like to say that the program doesn't seem especially intuitive. It's taken me a few hours to get a handle on it. I imported in a month's worth of bank data and it was more complicated than necessary to make some sense of it. I was using the simple checkbook option, too. I don't understand why I can't just have expenses and income. I'd like to organize either into sub-categories to see how it all gets divied up. The main screen right now shows "Assets, Equity, Expenses, My Account, Income." Granted I'm not a math guy, but that's why I'm using this program, to help me out, right? But this is just confusing. Why do I need Assets, Equity, and My Account? Why not just Income and Expenses? If I try to delete these others it just messes things up. Oh yeah one thing that this program sorely needs is UNDO. Oh yeah and AUTO-BACKUP. And maybe some kind of RESTORE function. While trying to organize my stuff I kept making mistakes but not realizing it until several minutes later, and I had no idea where the error was. Also, why can't the tabs operate like in Firefox? It's a tried a true method and one that people are used to. Anyway, I'll keep messing with this, I just wanted to contribute a bit. Feel free to email me if anyone reads this. Thanks