[Tuxaloosa] Open-source personal finance recommendations?

Sun Jan 2 06:45:25 UTC 2011

That's always been a little 'iffy' for my taste.   I played with it a while
back and seemed to get odd random crashes.  It's likely Untuit is using some
unsupported calls that aren't properly emulated.  It's a little scary that
this might dead-end into a reproducible crash case, that blocks actual use.

It either works or doesn't, eh?  ;)

HomeBank is looking promising, though...

On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 10:07 PM, Beddingfield, Allen <allen at ua.edu> wrote:

> Have you tried to get Quicken running on Codeweavers? They have it listed
> as "Silver" for Quicken 2010.
> Allen B.
>
>
>  *From*: Cameron Purvis [mailto:cameron.purvis at gmail.com]
> *Sent*: Saturday, January 01, 2011 09:44 AM
>
> *To*: Tuscaloosa Linux Users Group <tuxaloosa at tuxaloosa.org>
> *Subject*: Re: [Tuxaloosa] Open-source personal finance recommendations?
>
> Awesome suggestions, folks.  And anything that can be bundled with my
> install, or trivially installed (I'm looking at you, Ubuntu app store) is
> ideal.  Meta-work is a no-no.  :)
>
> My tactic is going to be running Quicken and HomeBank concurrently for
> about a month, and will probably give Mint a chance.  We'll see which of
> these options is less hassle and how skeevy mint feels with my logins ...
>
> On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Rick Williams <revrick56 at yahoo.com>wrote:
>
>> 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/
>>
>> I'm not promoting it, just passing it on for info.
>>
>> Rick
>>
>> --- On *Wed, 12/29/10, Beddingfield, Allen <allen at ua.edu>* wrote:
>>
>>
>> From: Beddingfield, Allen <allen at ua.edu>
>> Subject: Re: [Tuxaloosa] Open-source personal finance recommendations?
>> To: "'tuxaloosa at tuxaloosa.org'" <tuxaloosa at tuxaloosa.org>
>> Date: Wednesday, December 29, 2010, 11:29 PM
>>
>>
>> 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.
>> That MoneyManager looks promising...
>> Allen B.
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Cameron Purvis [mailto:cameron.purvis at gmail.com<http://mc/compose?to=cameron.purvis@gmail.com>
>> ]
>> Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2010 08:50 AM
>> To: Tuscaloosa Linux Users Group <tuxaloosa at tuxaloosa.org<http://mc/compose?to=tuxaloosa@tuxaloosa.org>
>> >
>> Subject: [Tuxaloosa] Open-source personal finance recommendations?
>>
>> Hope everyone had a good holiday experience - sufficient quality and
>> quantity food... :)
>>
>> So the calendar end of year is upon me.  I have used Quicken for
>> personal finances for a very, very long time and have upgraded every
>> couple of years.  Still, it's like the MS-Office case - it does all
>> kinds of wonderful things, of which maybe 20% are things I use.  I'd
>> like to 'reboot' my financial management.  I've tried a few things in
>> the past but would love to hear from anyone out there who's doing
>> personal finance work - what tools do you use?
>>
>> * Quicken - obviously the market leader.  It has the benefit of being
>> the most widely-supported app in terms of bank integration for
>> downloading transactions, et c.  Despite this, Intuit seems to be in a
>> constant bug-fixing war.  Version 2009 is much better but they
>> basically trashed the UI, at least to my notice after moving from 2004
>> (or 2005).  It has lots of features that are nice but could probably
>> be implemented outside the app like bill reminders, memorized
>> transactions, et c.
>>
>> * GNUcash is the knee-jerk answer for OSS personal accounting.  It
>> uses a different mental model from Quicken, and I may be too stupid to
>> use it.  GNUcash looks like an awesome accounting app but may be
>> overkill.  Still, maybe it's time to cowboy up and learn it?
>>
>> * Spreadsheets - several friends of mine just use spreadsheets to do
>> this.  It is tempting to even do a google doc so that I have access
>> everywhere but that gets close to the maybe-privacy-concern of...
>>
>> * mint.com which is surprisingly nice but really doesn't handle cash
>> transactions very well at all - which is a problem for dinosaurs who
>> still use cash a lot.  Plus you are giving all your financial logins
>> to a third party.  Still if you're okay with that, it's a very very
>> smooth service.  Gaping hole in their functionality is that there is
>> no concept of reconciling an account, so you can't 'close the books'
>> on a monthly statement, quarter, et c.  Also really works best if you
>> knuckle under and use THEIR categories.  Android and iPhone app is a
>> bonus.
>>
>> * Moneydance - non OSS but I tried this ages ago.  Kind of like
>> Quicken's dumb cousin.
>>
>> * http://www.codelathe.com/mmex/ MoneyManager EX - looks like very
>> similar to Quicken.  Anyone used this?
>>
>> Who uses any of these?  Do you have any others?  I'd love to hear what
>> you prefer (or loathe).  My goal here is to have a reasonably good
>> handle on financial ins and outs, the ability to use a relatively
>> limited set of categories (utilities vs. groceries etc) for budgeting
>> purposes, some ability to develop basic reporting (am I overspending,
>> et c) and not spend too much time managing the whole thing.
>> Surprisingly, Quicken for all its features turns out to NOT actually
>> shave much time off the process.
>>
>> So - anybody got any input on this topic?
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