I recently had a conversation with a friend about Mint.com’s limited featureset, and one of the things that came up was that it would be nice to be able to automatically categorize certain features. We agreed that something similar to gmail’s automatic filters would be useful. Well, it turns out that Mint.com does offer automatic categorizing, but it isn’t quite as nice as gmail’s filters. Instead, you can click on a transaction, and choose to click a checkbox that will automatically categorize all identically named transactions in the currently selected category. Not bad, I guess. At least it’s simple.

So now you can automatically categorize all golf fees into the “uncategorized” or “miscellaneous” expenses and never know how much you spend on golf (something I’ve learned would be detrimental to the golf industry).