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I've tried Quicken and Mint and PageOnce (now called Check) and a number of other things, and I've still found that the best solution for me is a mix of GnuCash and Spreadsheets.
Why hasn't this problem been solved yet?
You could also use Resolver One[1], which sadly is no longer in development[2]. It is a commercial spreadsheet written in IronPython that uses (almost?) vanilla python files as documents. Needless to say it is extremely scriptable. I'd love to take a stab at making a lite version in QT or wxPython running in CPython... Sadly, I've gotten too used to Google Spreadsheets to really need a desktop version Also, of course…
Are there docs on python macros for LibreOffice? I'm having trouble tracking them down if there are...
Personal finance software is probably one of the most commonly attacked problems in the development world, and yet there are still a ton of people just building custom spreadsheets. I've tried Quicken and Mint and PageOnce (now called Check) and a number of other things, and I've still found that the best solution for me is a mix of GnuCash and Spreadsheets. Why hasn't this problem been solved yet?
Personal finance software is probably one of the most commonly attacked problems in the development world, and yet there are still a ton of people just building custom spreadsheets. I've tried Quicken and Mint and PageOnce (now called Check) and a number of other things, and I've still found that the best solution for me is a mix of GnuCash and Spreadsheets. Why hasn't this problem been solved yet?
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Are there docs on python macros for LibreOffice? I'm having trouble tracking them down if there are...
https://help.libreoffice.org/Common/Scripting
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https://help.libreoffice.org/Common/Scripting
Thanks, but as far as I can tell that just shows you how to launch scripts/macros in various ways (menu item, etc). However, it doesn't document what you can do with the macros...coding conventions...interacting with data...etc.
But I agree in general that the documentation is paltry. Good opportunity for an interested person to do some more digging, write a few blog posts and possibly contribute to the documentation :)
Personal finance software is probably one of the most commonly attacked problems in the development world, and yet there are still a ton of people just building custom spreadsheets. I've tried Quicken and Mint and PageOnce (now called Check) and a number of other things, and I've still found that the best solution for me is a mix of GnuCash and Spreadsheets. Why hasn't this problem been solved yet?
The main issue is that a "mainstream" personal finance app must have the following two features:
- Automatic download of financial transactions
- Intelligent categorization from "STBCKS3134" to "Starbucks [Dining]"
Any tool that doesn't have those two features is doomed to be "niche"... used only by people who actually enjoy and/or are disciplined enough to enter their own data regularly.
In short, we need a "Twilio for personal finance" so that people can build creative solutions and not have to reinvent the wheel. There are startups out there that are trying to solve this.
You could also use Resolver One[1], which sadly is no longer in development[2]. It is a commercial spreadsheet written in IronPython that uses (almost?) vanilla python files as documents. Needless to say it is extremely scriptable. I'd love to take a stab at making a lite version in QT or wxPython running in CPython... Sadly, I've gotten too used to Google Spreadsheets to really need a desktop version Also, of course…