Light and dark themes and shortcuts in Money by Zaweba

Small settings make a difference to an app you open every week, and Money by Zaweba keeps its own short and practical. It comes in a dark navy theme or a light one, and a handful of keyboard shortcuts cover the jobs you do most: a new transaction, a statement import, the Home dashboard and the reports.

None of it is complicated. The point is that a regular money session should take minutes, and knowing these keys helps.

Dark navy or light

Switch with View > Light theme, or press Ctrl+Shift+L. Press it again to go back. The dark navy theme is easy on the eyes in the evening, which is when many people sit down with their finances. The light theme can be clearer in a bright room, or when you're reading figures off the screen to someone else.

There's nothing to lose by trying both. The figures, charts and registers are the same either way.

The shortcuts

Ctrl+N starts a new money file and Ctrl+O opens one. Most people only have one or two files, one per household or business, so these come up rarely, but they're handy for the sample file or a sole trader's second file.

Ctrl+I imports a statement, the start of most sessions. Ctrl+T adds a new transaction in the register; Enter saves it, Esc cancels and Delete deletes the selected one.

Ctrl+H goes to the Home dashboard, with balances, net worth, bills due, this month's budget and where the money went. Ctrl+R opens the reports.

If you forget any of them, Help > Keyboard shortcuts lists them all.

A weekly session from the keyboard

Here's a routine that uses them. Download your latest statements from your bank's website. Open Money and press Ctrl+I to import the first one, review the duplicates it set aside and the new rows ready to add, then add them. Repeat for each account.

Next, open the account you pay cash from and press Ctrl+T for each receipt you kept, typing dates such as today or 12/8 as they come. Enter saves each one.

Press Ctrl+H to see the dashboard and check the bills due in the next 30 days. If you want a closer look, Ctrl+R takes you to the reports.

There's no save step at the end. Every change saves straight away, and a backup is made when you close the file.

Small slips to avoid

Ctrl+N and Ctrl+O are easy to press when you meant something else, and both take you away from the file you were working in. If that happens, open your money file again with Ctrl+O and carry on; nothing you entered is lost, because it saved as you went.

Delete in the register removes the selected transaction straight away, and there's no undo. Check which row is selected before you press it. If one goes by mistake, type it in again with Ctrl+T, or go back to the backup made when you last closed the file.

Why so few shortcuts

Money doesn't try to put a key on every command. It's a finance app rather than a tool you live in all day, and a short list is easier to remember from one week to the next. The menus hold everything else.

Choose the theme you like reading, learn the six keys, and Money by Zaweba becomes a quick weekly habit rather than a chore.