MonestraManual

Insight and output

Reports

A polished PDF of everything Monestra holds — or of any one module, at exactly the depth you choose. Generated on-device, exported behind Face ID.

Reports turns your records into a document: a whole-life financial statement, or a focused report on a single module.

The Reports screen, with saved recipes.The Reports screen, with saved recipes.
The Reports screen, with saved recipes.

Building one#

A four-step builder, with a progress bar so you always know how far through you are.

  1. What would you like to report? A whole-life financial statement, or a focused report on any one module.
  2. How much detail? Summary (headline figures), Inventory (every record listed), or Full detail (everything, including breakdowns and charts).
  3. Personalize the cover. A title and subtitle, whether to include the cover page, and whether to stamp the date the report was produced. All optional — leave it blank and sensible defaults are used.
  4. Review & export. The preview here is exactly what exports; there is no second rendering path that could disagree with it.
Step 1 — what to report on.Step 1 — what to report on.
Step 1 — what to report on.
Step 2 — how much detail.Step 2 — how much detail.
Step 2 — how much detail.
Step 3 — the cover, all optional.Step 3 — the cover, all optional.
Step 3 — the cover, all optional.
Step 4 — review, then export.Step 4 — review, then export.
Step 4 — review, then export.

Recipes, not documents#

Monestra saves the recipe — what to include and at what depth — and never the generated PDF. Open a saved recipe next month and it regenerates from current data.

That keeps a stale document from masquerading as a current one, and it keeps your data in one place rather than scattered across generated copies.

Every module appears#

Modules that describe themselves to Reports directly produce a bespoke section. Assets is the showcase. Modules that do not are synthesised from what they already tell the Dashboard and the Assistant, so every enabled module appears in a report from day one.

Export is gated#

Exporting asks for Face ID, Touch ID or your passcode. A report is the one artefact in Monestra designed to leave the device, so it is the one place where the gate matters most.

You can add a password to the PDF, which encrypts it in the standard PDF way so it can be opened by any reader that supports it.

Masking and printed pages#

A report has its own masking switch, set at export time, and it does not read the on-screen mask state. That is deliberate: whether the screen is currently masked has nothing to do with whether a document you are about to send should carry figures. You decide when you export.

Charts#

Reports draw their own charts, sized for paper, with their own ink. A printed page has different constraints from a screen, and the same chart drawn twice for two media is more honest than one chart stretched across both.

This manual describes what Monestra does with the records you enter. It is not financial advice, and nothing in it is a recommendation to buy, sell, hold, or arrange anything.

Monestra is published by Aneri Parikh. Your money, and nobody else’s business.