This week: Using paper for finance tracking has been invaluable for helping me understand the process, shaping my Markdown budget trackers into a text-based, hands-on envelope budgeting approach. Simple calculations mean I can take charge of my incomings and outgoings without a standard spreadsheet.
This project is actually a byproduct of another big thing I'm working on.
Currently, I use YNAB for budgeting, but I've been putting sustained effort into getting my data out of the cloud and self-hosting everything.
I started researching options for budgeting software, and I really couldn't find anything I liked or that felt like it had enough features.
I decided, then, to just whip up something in Excel... which led me to the discovery of Office.js and the ability to build Add-ins for Excel using web tech.
Thus, vue-excel was born.
I may eventually release my budgeting tool for Excel, when it's feeling a little more mature and stable. Stay tuned... ❤️
AA renewal was 50% up on last year. 7 minute call being super friendly, got that reduced to 9% by asking "What's the best deal you can do me today for the same package?"
That's literally paid for my shopping this morning.
Never auto renew, these bastards will have you. #ukfinance#budgeting#costofliving
Time Timers, in the digital age, has to be one of the largest and most useless money drains for schools, already equipped with projectors and computers?
Update: #Mint is being shut down and users are being shunted over to Credit Karma, which is not budgeting software and has almost zero functionality for that purpose. I am now trying #Simplifi from Quicken, which is so far pretty good. It does cost money ($28 per year with discount). More importantly it does not yet have the feature to exclude part of a split transaction from your budget, which was one of my most-used Mint features. #budgeting#personalfinance