<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><P>I don't personally use financial software, but I also use Lighthouse Puppy OS. It includes HomeBank financial. Here is a link to that site: http://homebank.free.fr/</P><P>I'm not promoting it, just passing it on for info.<BR></P><P>Rick</P><BR>--- On <B>Wed, 12/29/10, Beddingfield, Allen <I><allen@ua.edu></I></B> wrote:<BR><BLOCKQUOTE style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><BR>From: Beddingfield, Allen <allen@ua.edu><BR>Subject: Re: [Tuxaloosa] Open-source personal finance recommendations?<BR>To: "'tuxaloosa@tuxaloosa.org'" <tuxaloosa@tuxaloosa.org><BR>Date: Wednesday, December 29, 2010, 11:29 PM<BR><BR><DIV class="plainMail">I hung on to Quicken 99 for way too long, and now I just use OpenOffice Calc spreadsheets. Would be curious to see what solution you come up with.<BR>That MoneyManager
looks promising...<BR>Allen B.<BR><BR><BR>----- Original Message -----<BR>From: Cameron Purvis [mailto:<A ymailto="mailto:cameron.purvis@gmail.com" href="/mc/compose?to=cameron.purvis@gmail.com">cameron.purvis@gmail.com</A>]<BR>Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2010 08:50 AM<BR>To: Tuscaloosa Linux Users Group <<A ymailto="mailto:tuxaloosa@tuxaloosa.org" href="/mc/compose?to=tuxaloosa@tuxaloosa.org">tuxaloosa@tuxaloosa.org</A>><BR>Subject: [Tuxaloosa] Open-source personal finance recommendations?<BR><BR>Hope everyone had a good holiday experience - sufficient quality and<BR>quantity food... :)<BR><BR>So the calendar end of year is upon me. I have used Quicken for<BR>personal finances for a very, very long time and have upgraded every<BR>couple of years. Still, it's like the MS-Office case - it does all<BR>kinds of wonderful things, of which maybe 20% are things I use. I'd<BR>like to 'reboot' my financial management. I've tried a few things
in<BR>the past but would love to hear from anyone out there who's doing<BR>personal finance work - what tools do you use?<BR><BR>* Quicken - obviously the market leader. It has the benefit of being<BR>the most widely-supported app in terms of bank integration for<BR>downloading transactions, et c. Despite this, Intuit seems to be in a<BR>constant bug-fixing war. Version 2009 is much better but they<BR>basically trashed the UI, at least to my notice after moving from 2004<BR>(or 2005). It has lots of features that are nice but could probably<BR>be implemented outside the app like bill reminders, memorized<BR>transactions, et c.<BR><BR>* GNUcash is the knee-jerk answer for OSS personal accounting. It<BR>uses a different mental model from Quicken, and I may be too stupid to<BR>use it. GNUcash looks like an awesome accounting app but may be<BR>overkill. Still, maybe it's time to cowboy up and learn it?<BR><BR>* Spreadsheets - several friends
of mine just use spreadsheets to do<BR>this. It is tempting to even do a google doc so that I have access<BR>everywhere but that gets close to the maybe-privacy-concern of...<BR><BR>* mint.com which is surprisingly nice but really doesn't handle cash<BR>transactions very well at all - which is a problem for dinosaurs who<BR>still use cash a lot. Plus you are giving all your financial logins<BR>to a third party. Still if you're okay with that, it's a very very<BR>smooth service. Gaping hole in their functionality is that there is<BR>no concept of reconciling an account, so you can't 'close the books'<BR>on a monthly statement, quarter, et c. Also really works best if you<BR>knuckle under and use THEIR categories. Android and iPhone app is a<BR>bonus.<BR><BR>* Moneydance - non OSS but I tried this ages ago. Kind of like<BR>Quicken's dumb cousin.<BR><BR>* <A href="http://www.codelathe.com/mmex/"
target="_blank">http://www.codelathe.com/mmex/</A> MoneyManager EX - looks like very<BR>similar to Quicken. Anyone used this?<BR><BR>Who uses any of these? Do you have any others? I'd love to hear what<BR>you prefer (or loathe). My goal here is to have a reasonably good<BR>handle on financial ins and outs, the ability to use a relatively<BR>limited set of categories (utilities vs. groceries etc) for budgeting<BR>purposes, some ability to develop basic reporting (am I overspending,<BR>et c) and not spend too much time managing the whole thing.<BR>Surprisingly, Quicken for all its features turns out to NOT actually<BR>shave much time off the process.<BR><BR>So - anybody got any input on this topic?<BR>_______________________________________________<BR>TUXaloosa mailing list<BR><A ymailto="mailto:TUXaloosa@tuxaloosa.org" href="/mc/compose?to=TUXaloosa@tuxaloosa.org">TUXaloosa@tuxaloosa.org</A><BR><A
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