# Transactions

> The full ledger, including the refunds and transfers the journal filters out, plus the attention queue and the trash.

Transactions is the complete ledger. Everything the [journal](/using/journal/) sets aside — refunds, deposits, transfers, zero-amount rows — is here, alongside your spending.

## Month view and range search

By default you look at one month, filtered and sorted right in the browser for an immediate response. Pick a date range instead and Tidings switches to a server-backed search across months. That search returns up to roughly a thousand rows; when a range matches more, a notice shows how many you are seeing and you export the full set to CSV.

## The attention queue

The banner reading "N transactions need a category" is the attention queue: transactions that still need a human decision. A row lands here when it is still Miscellaneous with no one having set it, or when the AI extracted or categorized it and no one has confirmed the result yet.

**Confirm** marks the category as reviewed without changing it — it clears the row from the queue by agreeing with what is already there.

> **note**
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> The attention queue is transactions that need a category. It is not [Needs review](/using/needs-review/), which holds raw emails that never parsed into transactions at all. One is a decision about an existing transaction; the other is an email waiting to become one.

## Changing a category versus changing behavior

Editing a transaction's category changes that one transaction and nothing else. To change how future transactions from the same merchant are categorized, you make a rule — see [categorization](/using/categorization/). Your manual corrections are also what teach Tidings the rules it suggests, so a careful edit now shapes the suggestions later.

## Deleting and the trash

Delete is a soft delete. The transaction moves to the trash, drops out of every report and total, and stays there until you decide what to do with it — there is no automatic purge and no retention clock.

- **Restore** brings a transaction back from the trash into your active ledger.
- **Permanent delete** removes it for good and cannot be undone.

You browse the trash a month at a time at `/transactions/trash`.

## Receipts to file

A receipt — a photo, an image from the library, or a PDF — can be attached directly from a transaction's row, or uploaded on its own. Standalone uploads collect under **Receipts to file** at the top of the page until you file them: filing matches the receipt to the transaction it belongs to, with ranked candidates by date and amount, and parses its contents when receipt-parsing consent is on in [settings](/using/settings/). Attached receipts also serve as the evidence rows in [tax receipts](/using/tax/).