GnuCash

Post by ajvs » Sun, May 01, 2022, 5:17 AM UTC

manifoldgeo wrote: post #33

I'm an avid user of GnuCash. Last I checked, their mobile app was basically abandoned (around 2018), and it had no way to use a SQL DB, even though the desktop can use SQLite3, MySQL, and Postgres [1]. So there was no easy way to use desktop AND mobile in a shared way. So, I made a small companion app called gnucash-helper [2]. It's a Python/Flask web app for doing the very basics of GnuCash, i.e. entering transactio…

Post by atmosx » Sun, May 01, 2022, 5:22 AM UTC

LAC-Tech wrote: post #45

kayson wrote: post #39

Without a way to easily import data directly from my banks/credit cards, using GnuCash (or Firefly III, a great alternative that's also worth checking out) just takes way more time than its worth. (OFX was not as straightforward to obtain or use as one would hope). Mint is so much easier to use - it automatically pulls and categorizes transactions from pretty much any institution imaginable without no user effort nee…

"Without a way to easily import data directly from my banks/credit cards" What is this wizardry? I go to the web portal of my (banks) and basically do double entry.

Post by hirvi74 » Sun, May 01, 2022, 5:29 AM UTC

chrsig wrote: post #43

kayson wrote: post #39

Without a way to easily import data directly from my banks/credit cards, using GnuCash (or Firefly III, a great alternative that's also worth checking out) just takes way more time than its worth. (OFX was not as straightforward to obtain or use as one would hope). Mint is so much easier to use - it automatically pulls and categorizes transactions from pretty much any institution imaginable without no user effort nee…

I hated all of the advertising in mint. I recently started using ynab[0], which can also import balances & transactions from banks. It supports oauth and 2fa, which was nice for the reason you listed: I don't want to give my credentials to anyone, even a "trusted" vendor like intuit. It also has a rest api, which I haven't gotten to try yet, but stands out as a very nice to have feature for me. The downside is that y…

Post by atmosx » Sun, May 01, 2022, 5:36 AM UTC

yawaramin wrote: post #19

neilv wrote: post #17

GnuCash can be a lot of work, but I've found worthwhile ways to use it. YMMV. I used GnuCash when I had a consulting business (including abusing the invoicing features for time-tracking), as well as for personal finances. Over the years, I keep experimenting with different ways to use it. At one point, I could even run a custom report to show how much I was saving by making coffee at home rather than picking up one e…

I had a similar trajectory. For the past few years I've been using ledger-cli, which is a purely command-line tool for double-entry bookkeeping. It reads a plain text file containing structured transaction entries, and can output various formats, like ledgers, reports, etc. I'm liking the minimalism, it just needs a text editor to maintain the transaction journal.

Post by sentientslug » Sun, May 01, 2022, 5:43 AM UTC

kayson wrote: post #52

chrsig wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I hated all of the advertising in mint. I recently started using ynab[0], which can also import balances & transactions from banks. It supports oauth and 2fa, which was nice for the reason you listed: I don't want to give my credentials to anyone, even a "trusted" vendor like intuit. It also has a rest api, which I haven't gotten to try yet, but stands out as a very nice to have feature for me. The downside is that y…

The thing that turned me away from ynab is that their marketing seems to say that they're trying to change spending/saving behavior in some way. I don't need to plan or make a zbb, I just want to easily categorize and track my spending. Admittedly, I didn't even try their free trial, but it just didn't seem like a good fit.