Importing 10 years of quicken data would be problematic. There is also the unwritten "I use the GUI and don't have to think much about it"...
On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 8:23 AM, <johanne...@gmail.com> wrote: > I just stumbled about a stackexchange question about personal finance > software: > > "Possible replacement for Quicken", > http://money.stackexchange.com/questions/3070/possible-replacement-for-quicken/3080 >> I have been using quicken to track my financial life for about 10 years >> now and am generally happy with it. A couple of years back Intuit changed >> the ability to download stock quotes for 2 years maximum. After that 2 years >> you need to buy the next version of Quicken. Not cool since the features I >> use have not changed in about 5 years. So my time to renew is coming up in a >> few months and I need to determine if I can use something else of just buy >> Quicken again. >> >> Here are the main things I use Quicken for: >> >> Schedule bills and deposits in the calendar view so I can keep an eye >> on cash flow. >> Track all my stock and mutual fund investments across numerous >> accounts. >> I manually enter all my transactions so I can keep control of them. I >> just reconcile what I entered into Quicken based on the statements sent to >> me. I do not use Quicken's bill pay. >> I categorize all my expenditures for help come tax time. >> I use numerous reports including. Net Worth tracking, Cash not is >> retirement funds and total retirement savings. >> >> My question is there any other tools (online or not) that would allow me >> to replace Quicken and not miss a beat? If I could import my Quicken data >> that would be a bonus. >> >> I was interested in mint.com until Quicken bought them. Now I am not sure >> if they're any different then Quicken. Thoughts? > > (It is not my question, I just stumbled upon it.) > > Since I am personally using ledger and in order to support the Ledger > project, I wanted to suggest using Ledger. But I am unsure how Ledger > fulfils all the needs listed in the question. I therefore bring the question > to your attention... Maybe somebody can come up with an answer that explains > how/if ledger would be a good alternative to Quicken? > > thx, > Johannes > > -- > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ledger" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to ledger-cli+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Craig, Corona De Tucson, AZ enderw88.wordpress.com -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ledger" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ledger-cli+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
