You’re a YNABer, which implies you’re all about intentional spending. You’ve received targets and the arrogance to make your cash give you the results you want.

However even with a stable spendfulness plan, it helps to have a transparent view of what wants your consideration proper now—so you may keep targeted and preserve making progress.

Enter Highlight: the brand new space in YNAB that brings your monetary priorities into focus.

Whether or not it’s masking overspending, monitoring key classes, or ensuring you’re on monitor to get a month forward, Highlight places an important items of your plan entrance and middle. As a result of when your cash displays your priorities, that’s you within the highlight. 

Suppose again to MTV Cribs… I’m excited to point out you round this brand-new house.

Highlight: The grand tour

Think about Highlight as a command middle for what issues most to you. This new space of the app is all about readability—highlighting your prime priorities, surfacing key actions, and monitoring your progress towards large targets.

Proper on the prime, you’ll see motion banners (like “Cowl Overspending” or “Evaluate Transactions”) that information your subsequent steps and preserve your plan updated. No extra questioning what wants consideration. Highlight makes it clear, so you may take motion and transfer ahead like a boss.

Your cash, at a look

Highlight is designed to maintain your monetary priorities clear and actionable. And whereas there’s a whole lot of energy packed into this house, you’ll end up coming again to 3 key sections many times:

High Priorities – Pin the classes that matter most to you.

Abstract – See the place you stand this month and regulate as wanted.

Assigned in Future Months – Observe your progress towards getting a month (or months!) forward.

Let’s take a better have a look at every!

High Priorities: Your instant targets

You understand what they are saying: the place your consideration goes, vitality flows. The High Priorities part is the place you may pin the classes that matter most to you proper now, holding your focus (and your {dollars}) precisely the place you need them.

Attempting to rein in your takeout spending earlier than your favourite supply driver is aware of your order by coronary heart? Add it right here for fast entry while you’re deciding between cooking at dwelling or holding the native sushi place in enterprise.

These are your prime priorities. What’s going to provide you peace of thoughts? What’s going that will help you make progress in your targets? Add these classes right here to maintain them entrance and middle.

Abstract: A snapshot of your month

The Abstract part offers you a fast, clear image of how issues are going this month. It’s additionally a gateway to highly effective instruments that assist you construct a robust, versatile plan targeted fully in your values.

Whole Targets: Your plan at a look

On the prime, you’ll see the Whole Targets card, which reveals the overall of all of the targets you’ve set for the present month. However there’s greater than meets the attention—faucet on it to open the Edit Plan display.

On the prime of Edit Plan, you’ll discover your Price to Be Me, the overall quantity you’ve deliberate to spend this month throughout all of your targets. Everyone knows how a lot we earn, however do we all know how a lot we plan to spend? Now you do. Whole game-changer!

Beneath that, you may add your anticipated revenue for the month and immediately see in case your plan is possible or when you’ve got further {dollars} to assign.

Just under that, you’ll see the utmost your targets may add as much as subsequent month, serving to you put together for what’s forward. Preserve scrolling, and you’ll view and regulate each goal in your plan. You may add, edit, and transfer classes as wanted.

In case your Price to Be Me is under your revenue, it could be time to dream larger. Perhaps add a class for that Hawaii trip now that you recognize you’ve the margin to deal with it.

Underfunded & Assigned: What {dollars} nonetheless want jobs?

The Underfunded card reveals how a lot you continue to have to assign this month to totally fund your targets.

The Assigned card reveals how a lot you’ve assigned to your classes this month. Faucet it to enter Assign Mode, the place you may put each greenback to work. Then, return to Highlight and benefit from the satisfaction of a totally funded plan.

Spent: See the place your cash went‍

The Spent card tracks how a lot you’ve spent to this point. Faucet on Spent to go to the Mirror tab, the place you may dig into your spending and see if it matches the plan you created.

Plan, spend, reflect, repeat. That’s the facility of Abstract.

Assigned in Future Months: Construct extra margin

Everybody’s monetary scenario is exclusive, and you’re the skilled on what jobs your {dollars} ought to be doing. However there’s one milestone that we all know is life-changing for completely everybody: getting a month forward.

Think about being totally funded on the first. You’ll have the respiration room to face the sudden (as a result of there’s all the time one thing sudden!) and the steadiness to make spending choices with the sort of conviction that makes you stand taller.

This part reveals how a lot cash you’ve assigned in future months and tracks your progress towards totally funding your targets.

Undecided easy methods to get began? Faucet “The way to Get a Month Forward”, and Hannah will stroll you thru it. We’ve been calling this “Pocket Hannah” as a result of, truthfully, who wouldn’t need somewhat Hannah wit and knowledge on demand?

Getting a month forward is likely one of the finest methods to construct resilience into your plan—it’s like stepping again from the monetary edge and eventually exhaling.

Give it a shot. You are able to do this!

Step into the Highlight

Did the grand tour simply make you need to open YNAB and pin your High Priorities? Go on—Highlight is prepared when you find yourself.

This can be a brand-new house in YNAB, and we’re simply getting began. Count on updates and enhancements as we hear from you about what would make it even higher.

When you’re right here, why not get to know your spending fashion? Take our Spending Persona Quiz and see what your habits say about your values!

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