Invoices are more than financial records. They're memory fragments. With highlights, comments, and custom collections, Clint now helps you remember why something mattered, not just how much it cost.

Invoices Are Not Data. They're Context

In the analog world, we never treated receipts and invoices as cold documents. We circled numbers. We underlined dates. We wrote small notes in the margins: "business trip", "refund pending", "gift for the kids".

When finances went fully digital, that layer of human context disappeared. Files became searchable but not memorable. We could find invoices by merchant or amount, yet we slowly lost the story behind them. The numbers stayed, but the meaning faded.

Clint exists to bring that missing layer back. We believe financial management should feel natural, not robotic. Your expenses tell a story, and that story deserves to be remembered exactly the way you experienced it.

Highlight, Comment, Remember

We've introduced a new way to add comments to invoices in Clint using simple text highlighting, just like in real life. You can now highlight any part of an invoice and leave a comment directly on top of it. That comment stays pixel-perfectly anchored to the exact spot it refers to.

Every comment is searchable. Weeks or months later, you can find an invoice simply by searching for the note you wrote. It's not just annotation. It's memory, preserved in a way that makes sense to you.

How Invoice Highlighting Works

Open any invoice in Clint and select the text you want to mark. A comment box appears instantly. Type your note, hit save, and it locks to that exact location on the document. When you return to that invoice later, your comment sits right where you left it.

This works across all your devices. Highlight an invoice on your laptop, and the comment appears on your phone. Everything syncs automatically, keeping your financial context available whenever you need it.

Why This Matters

Financial clarity doesn't come from more numbers. It comes from context. When you understand why an expense happened, who it was for, or what was going on at the time, financial data turns into something meaningful and actionable.

This is especially true in everyday life, where spending is rarely just "personal" or "business." It's layered, emotional, and situational. A single purchase might connect to a family event, a work project, and a personal goal all at once. Traditional expense tracking systems force you to pick one category and lose the rest of the story.

Clint doesn't make you choose. It lets you layer as much context as you need onto each invoice, creating a financial record that actually reflects how you live.

Beyond Categories: Personal Collections

Clint already works hard on your behalf. We automatically identify whether an invoice is recurring, like subscriptions, or one-off. We categorize invoices based on the merchant's line of business. But there was still something missing.

Life doesn't think in categories. Life thinks in stories. "Last month's business trip." "New Year's gifts." "Our son's gaming expenses." "Gifts I bought for my partner." "Cosmetics my partner uses."

Until now, users couldn't group invoices around these personal contexts. Now they can.

Meet Tags and Collections

With our new tagging feature, you can create custom collections that match how you think about money. Tag any invoice with one or more labels that mean something to you. Build collections around trips, people, projects, or any pattern that matters in your life.

Once your collections are in place, Clint lets you see how many invoices belong to each collection, month by month. Track total spending per collection over time. Look back and understand patterns you didn't even know you had.

No spreadsheets. No manual tracking. Just clarity that grows naturally as you use the app.

Why Custom Collections Change Everything

Traditional budgeting tools make you fit your life into their boxes. Clint does the opposite. It adapts to the way you already think about money. If you want to track "weekend getaways" separate from "family vacations," you can. If you need to see all "client dinners" in one place, regardless of the restaurant, that's easy too.

Collections also help couples and families manage shared expenses without losing individual perspective. You can tag an invoice with both "household" and "personal project" if it serves both purposes. Everyone sees the full picture without fighting over categories.

This flexibility makes financial tracking feel less like homework and more like understanding your own life better.

Built for Humans, Not Just Reports

Clint is not trying to turn you into an accountant. It's trying to give you back something digital finance quietly took away: your own memory of money.

Because the most important question isn't "How much did I spend?" It's "What was this for, and was it worth it?" Clint helps you answer that by preserving the human side of your finances alongside the numbers.

What Makes Clint Different

Most expense managers focus on extraction and categorization. They pull data from receipts and sort it into predefined buckets. That's useful, but it's only half the job. The other half is helping you remember, understand, and learn from your spending over time.

Clint combines automated tracking with flexible personalization. Our AI handles the boring parts like identifying recurring subscriptions and categorizing merchants. You handle the meaningful parts like adding context, creating collections, and deciding what matters most to you.

This balance keeps financial management efficient without making it feel mechanical. You get the speed of automation with the depth of human insight.

How to Get Started with Invoice Memory

Adding context to your invoices takes seconds. Open any invoice in Clint and look for the highlight tool in the top menu. Select the text you want to mark, add your comment, and save. That's it.

Start with invoices that matter most. Recent business expenses, gifts you want to remember, or anything you know you'll need to reference later. As you build the habit, you'll find yourself adding notes naturally whenever something needs context.

For collections, think about the stories your spending tells. What patterns do you want to track? What groups would help you understand your money better? Create a few tags to start, and add more as you discover new patterns in your financial life.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can I add multiple comments to one invoice?

Yes. Highlight different sections and add separate comments to each. All comments stay anchored to their exact locations, so you can annotate as much or as little as you need.

Do comments affect my spending reports?

No. Comments add context without changing your financial data. Your totals, categories, and reports remain accurate while giving you extra layers of meaning to explore when you need them.

Can I search for invoices using my comments?

Absolutely. Every comment is fully searchable. Type any word from your notes into the search bar, and Clint will surface all invoices with matching comments, even from months or years ago.

How do tags differ from categories?

Categories are automatic labels based on merchant type, like "groceries" or "utilities." Tags are custom labels you create yourself, like "summer vacation" or "office setup." You can use both together for maximum organization.

Can I share collections with other people?

Not yet, but we're working on shared collections for couples and families. For now, each user creates their own collections based on their personal view of expenses.

Will highlighting work on all invoice types?

Yes. Whether it's a PDF receipt, a scanned image, or a digital invoice, you can highlight text and add comments. Our system recognizes text across all common document formats.

The Future of Personal Finance Memory

Financial technology has spent years making money management faster and more automated. That's valuable, but speed alone doesn't create understanding. The next step is building tools that help you remember, reflect, and make better decisions based on your actual life, not generic advice.

Clint is leading that shift. By combining AI-powered automation with human-centered features like highlighting and collections, we're creating a financial memory system that works the way your brain does. You get the efficiency of modern technology with the depth and meaning of analog note-taking.

This is just the beginning. We're exploring ways to make financial context even richer, including voice notes, photo attachments, and collaborative memory features for households. The goal stays the same: help you remember your money story so you can write the next chapter with confidence.

Remember What Matters

Invoices aren't just proof of purchase. They're markers of decisions, moments, and priorities. When you add highlights, comments, and custom collections to your financial records, you're not just organizing data. You're preserving the human story behind every dollar.

Clint makes this easy, natural, and actually useful. You don't need to be a spreadsheet expert or a budgeting enthusiast. You just need to care about understanding your own financial life better. We handle the technical work. You focus on remembering what matters and making choices that align with your values.

Start building your financial memory today. Every invoice has a story. Now you can keep it.