Create a budgeting app

Up: Ideas for software projects

I’ve been working on and off on a prototype for a budgeting app, but I am not really getting anywhere. I haven’t really shown any recent screenshots or truly talked about how it works, but that’ll come later.

It has gone through many revisions, in Swift and in Go and in Ruby and probably (though I can’t recall) in Crystal. See the incoming links for details.

Text-only data format

Just playing around with ideas here.

Budgets:

budget 2021-12
  Expenses:Fixed:Rent      1249.52 EUR
  Expenses:Food:Groceries   400.00 EUR

Targets:

target "Save up for MacBook Pro"
  from 2021-05
  until 2021-12
  Expenses:Replacement:MacBookPro  1500.00 EUR

target "Holidays"
  from 2021-05
  monthly
  Expenses:Fun:Holidays  50.00 EUR

Upcoming transactions:

upcoming "Rent"
  monthly
  from 2022-01
  Expenses:Fixed:Rent  1301.27 EUR

upcoming "Rent (old)"
  monthly
  until 2021-12
  Expenses:Fixed:Rent  1249.52 EUR

Main file:

include_beancount "../db/main.db"

include "upcoming"
include "target"
include "budget_2021"
include "budget_2022"

In the future include_beancount might be generalizable to import other types of data as well.