On Wednesday August 22 2012 16:28:21 Chris Wood <[email protected]> wrote: <snip> > youneedabudget.com has an awesome tool from a usage stand point. The > software runs on your local machine, but you can sync your data via dropbox > to other machines. You can also set it up on your phone for entry of > receipts. All can be live and do entry at the same time. I've become a > huge fan quickly even with its weaknesses. (I had to write a CVS converter > for Zionsbank data download to work well with YNAB.) If you're serious > about budgeting and hate every other tool out there, this may be nirvana. > > YNAB allows you to do things that the other tools don't do. My biggest > complaint about the way most budgeting tools out there is that it just > shows you what happened after the fact. It doesn't let you plan for the > next month and say what the budget should be. Also, the biggest issue is > that if you have saving goals they don't handle it well. If you wanted to > save money for a new car and for a vacation AND save the money in the same > actual bank account, it gets messy. I think it was Yodlee or Mint that > said to go create a separate bank account for every savings goal. YNAB > handles all of this correctly.
Excellent information. I didn't include You Need a Budget because I didn't see any support for Linux. I see now that it is an Adobe Air app. With Adobe dropping Air for Linux, what is your long term plan? Thanks, Richard /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
