I decided to make a calc sheet for our personal finance stuff. One of the most important features, the export (in order to send the data to my tax adviser [was zur Hölle heisst Steuerberater wirklich?]) made me decide to write the calc sheet.
As usual, there must be someone who had solved the problem already too. So I started looking for a software that does all that ... again, seems like I can't make up my mind. On macupdate I searched through the free personal finance software and I found Cashbox, a really nice piece of software. Almost just like I imagined.
Now while writing this down I realize that multiple users are not supported (a web app should/would but a desktop app is always easier and nicer to use) and that there is no export at all. Will I finally switch back to a calc sheet? Gee, I really have a hard time deciding :-)
Anyway I got more wishes for Cashbox, here they are sorted by importance
* export to PDF, better would even be an Excel sheet (since OpenOffice can read it its the smallest common denominator)
* multiple labels per transation (i.e. needed for "tax relevant" and "business dinner")
* additionally a label should be a tree, which allows for grouping
labels, i.e. "household" is a root element, "rent" a child of it, and
so on
* periodic transations, which occur i.e. once every month
* when adding a transation should include the option to transfer the money to another account, using the menu takes too much time (a keyboard shortcut would be nice for the beginning)
* the search doesn't search the labels, better would be if I could determine what to search (like i.e. in Mail)
Bugs
* when changing the date in the transaction drawer the field the cursor is in gets reset
Once I find the time to get into the source code deeper I can imagine to add some of the feautures... we'll see. Thanks for the nice piece of software for now.
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