On Oct 24, 2008, at 2:33 PM, Joseph McAllister wrote:
If you just want to keep track of your checkbook and charges, why
use quicken at all? Any simple database program can do that. I do
it with a simple database I made a dozen or more years ago. I've
migrated it through several different DB engines as things changed.
It works fine.
Very little of what I do today with image processing was anywhere
near as easy and productive to do in PS 4. Same for my writing and
document creation comparing AppleWorks and Pages.
Because I'm a lazy dog, who doesn't want to be inputing every penny
I spend into a database or spreadsheet. I like the idea of
downloading the data from my bank(s), entering the minor cash
purchases, then checking the balances and smiling at how clever that
all is. And most of all, sucking it all back out into what used to
be MacinTax, then TurboTax, to do my taxes every year. I do use
Pages now, though it surprises me all the time with crap built into
it's templates that I don't want, and can't figure out how to get
rid of. And I use Numbers as my spreadsheet engine - getting used to
that as well, but have neither the expertise nor the patience to
design and troubleshoot a personal financial package that would do
my taxes as well.
1: You pay for your conveniences. Then complain. Inputting my daily
receipts and expenditures takes a few minutes a day and costs me
nothing.
2: Design your own templates for Pages that have what you want in
them. Everything you need to know is in the built in Help, including
tutorial videos on how to do things, never mind the automatic pointers
to online help and discussion groups.
You do what you want to do. Such it is.
G
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