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So I'm considering just using excel to keep track of all my expenses and income, but is there a better solution? What do you use to track how you spend money? I want something from which I can freely export the data if need be so excel is tempting.

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[–] skip0110@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 days ago

Google sheet. It’s not the most “libre” solution but I can easily add items from my phone, share with my SO, and it is exportable to CSV which I view as the actual archival format.

Been doing this since January (tracking every $ we spend) and towards the end of the year I plan to import into a local DB server so I can run some reports and see where we could improve.