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Written by ComradeMiao@lemmy.world on 2024-12-03 at 05:48

What do you host for your finances and why!

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Written by geography082@lemm.ee on 2024-12-03 at 12:33

Actual Budget all the way

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Written by jg1i@lemmy.world on 2024-12-04 at 09:00

Is there some tutorial you’d recommend to get started? I didn’t find the docs or demo helpful and a lot of videos seem to be focused on background or setup. I can install the app fine, but like how does one actually use this?

I’ve never used budgeting apps. I’d like to learn more about them and why they’re useful. My current budgeting is: positive balance=good; negative balance=bad

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Written by jg1i@lemmy.world on 2024-12-05 at 05:54

As a note for people new to budgeting apps, YNAB has a toooonnn of tutorials and videos about how to create a budget and what the end-to-end workflow looks like in their apps.

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Written by geography082@lemm.ee on 2024-12-05 at 10:32

They have an excelent documentation for new starters. actualbudget.org/docs/…/roadmap-for-new-users

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Written by jg1i@lemmy.world on 2024-12-08 at 06:56

That link kinda showcases exactly my point… It’s pretty useless to me. I know how to install the app. I don’t know what the daily workflow looks like.

Compare that to the tutorials YNAB has on YouTube. Those talk more about how to use the app to budget.

Anyway, it’s fine. I understand I’m not the target audience for Actual. It seems like it’s for people who already have prior experience with finance apps.

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Written by geography082@lemm.ee on 2024-12-09 at 06:06

Hehehe hold on. Just try it and fins your own way to use it. You never know what you can find out. I can give you my experience, my only past experience was with Excel files to control my spending. It was pretty enough to be honest , at first when tried this app I was like ok why I need to do all this job of put every spending … Then after two month I realized that mechanical doing so made more aware of my day by day spending and my month budget became better. It’s just that, Hela to be aware of what you are doing every months and it feels good filling it every 2 or 3 days.

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