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Clarity comments on Stupid Questions September 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Clarity 03 September 2015 09:39:19AM 3 points [-]

What's a minimalist, free, personal finance software to keep track of what I own, possess, am in invested in, spending my time and budgeting?

Comment author: gwern 03 September 2015 04:46:45PM 5 points [-]

Is there some reason punching 'minimalist free personal finance software' into Google did not help you out?

Comment author: Lumifer 03 September 2015 03:44:55PM *  2 points [-]

Whatever Open/Libre Office calls their spreadsheet.

Not sure how minimalist you want to go, though. A shell and a filesystem are sufficient, if you want to be really minimalist :-/

Comment author: philh 03 September 2015 05:27:04PM 1 point [-]

http://www.ledger-cli.org/ is minimalist in some dimensions, I think less so in others.

Comment author: Risto_Saarelma 05 September 2015 01:19:36PM 1 point [-]

Seconding this. I use the hledger variant.

Comment author: OrphanWilde 03 September 2015 02:00:11PM 1 point [-]

Notepad/TextEdit. If you want a few more features than that, MySQL. If you want a few more features than that, http://www.gnucash.org/

Comment author: moridinamael 08 September 2015 03:44:58PM 0 points [-]

I use Mint.com to great effect. It's free, it allows you to track all your bank accounts and investments and any property you care to keep track of. It also lets you set budgets.

It doesn't do anything for tracking time.

If you use it you will inevitably find shortfalls. For example, you will inevitably wish that you could apply this month's budget assumptions to previous months in order to test out the budget's performance, and you'll realize that you can't do that. But all software has limitations.

Comment author: Elo 05 September 2015 09:50:12AM 0 points [-]

pocketbook; YNAB (you need a budget)