What charts can Daystrom make, and how do I ask for one?

You do not build charts in Daystrom. You describe the view you want in plain English, and it draws the chart that fits, straight from your processed statements. The charts below are live, drawn with sample data, so you see the real output, not a screenshot. The prompt that produces each one sits right beside it in the text.

How do you ask Daystrom for a chart?

Just say what you want to see. Words like "chart," "graph," "over time," "by category," and "flow of funds" all steer the shape of the answer. You never pick a chart type from a menu. Daystrom reads the question and chooses the format, then draws it from the same numbers that sit in your transaction ledger.

If the first draw is not the view you had in mind, tell it what to change and it redraws. More on that below.

What bar charts can you ask for?

Bar charts compare amounts side by side. Say "chart their spending by category" and Daystrom breaks the money out by its real categories, travel, food and drink, entertainment, and the rest, one bar each. Net figures work too: ask to "show net cash flow by month" and any month that ran negative comes back as a red bar, so a shortfall is impossible to miss.

Hover any bar to read its exact value. To narrow a busy chart, add the limit to your prompt: "just the top five categories" or "only 2024."

What line charts can you ask for?

Line charts show a value moving over time. Ask Daystrom to "show luxury spending over time" and it plots the discretionary categories month by month, the lifestyle picture you want when someone is spending more than they say they earn. The same phrasing works for a count instead of dollars, so "how many cash withdrawals each month" comes back as a plain number, which is what you watch when you suspect a structuring pattern.

Line charts read best across a real time span, so name the window you care about ("across 2024," "the last 18 months") and Daystrom labels the axis to match.

How do you get a flow-of-funds diagram?

When you want to trace money rather than total it, ask for a flow of funds. Daystrom draws a diagram that follows dollars from an account out through the people and entities that received them, with the width of each band set by the amount. It is the fastest way to see where money went.

For the full walk-through, including how to read the bands and follow a single trail, see how to get a flow-of-funds diagram.

What if the chart isn't quite what you wanted?

Tell Daystrom what to change and it redraws the same data:

• Switch the shape. "Make it a bar chart" or "show that as a line" swaps the format without you re-asking the whole question.

• Trim it down. "Just the top five" or "only the last 12 months" filters a crowded chart to the part that matters.

• Change the grouping. "Break it out by account instead" or "group it by quarter" re-buckets the same numbers.

Every chart is drawn from your real data, so whatever you ask to see ties back to the transactions behind it.

Can you get the numbers instead of a picture?

Yes. If you would rather have the figures than a chart, ask for a table or say "list the transactions," and Daystrom returns the rows straight from the ledger. You can then export those findings to a spreadsheet to drop into a memo or exhibit.