What are the advantages of the document over pencil? Edit-in-place?
> It's time for an Open Source personal finance program.
Yep, QuickBooks is about the only reason I boot Micros~1 Windows now.
Unfortunately, I only do so every few months, so I haven't had much
incentive to script up what little I use of it. At least Quicken
has a somewhat reasonable export format.
The main reason I haven't done anything on these fronts is that I've
been following Thoreau's advice:
Walden
> Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to
> count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten
> toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let
> your affairs be as two or threee, and not a hundred or a thousand;
> instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your
> thumb nail.
WardCunningham's thoughts:
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?IsAnythingBetterThanPaper
> I prefer my own memory to paper. It works hands-free while driving,
> works without light late at night, and it's waterproof in the shower.
> I especially like the way it improves everything I put into it. I have
> missed an occasional appointment. Perhaps that's an improvement too.
-Dave