Moneydancing
April 1st, 2009
I posted yesterday on my new finance tracking software, Moneydance. This is a follow-up post.
After transferring my accounts from Quicken to Moneydance, I spent a good bit of time making sure everything transferred correctly. Minus a few snags in my investment accounts, everything went smoothly.
Initial impressions:
- I find the home/root screen to be the most useful portion of the program, aside from my next point. Quicken was able to give me an accounts window, but it just didn’t provide the information in a meaningful way. Now I have one screen with my accounts grouped by type, a transaction calendar, investment watch, quick budget analysis, and reminders.
- Extensions make Moneydance the Firefox of finance software. Other users develop extensions to make the program better for them, which helps us all out. My favorite is the Credit Card Paydown Calculators. It calculates the payoff time for all active credit cards, given any sort of variable you want to throw at it.
- The interface has an OS X feel that Quicken could never muster. Moneydance is written for OS X, Linux, and Windows, and seems to have a native GUI for each platform.
This is $40 well-spent.
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Where did you get your blog layout from? I’d like to get one like it for my blog.
It’s called iNove – check in the WP theme directory.