https://github.com/bytekeeper/spenderbender

Small CLI application to categorize and summarize spending and revenues
https://github.com/bytekeeper/spenderbender

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Small CLI application to categorize and summarize spending and revenues

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/bytekeeper/spenderbender
• Owner: Bytekeeper
• Created: 2022-12-16T16:51:19.000Z (about 2 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2023-11-04T15:34:22.000Z (about 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2023-11-04T16:33:47.106Z (about 1 year ago)
• Language: Rust
• Size: 94.7 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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# SpenderBender

Small CLI application to categorize and summarize spending and revenues

Most of these personal finance/budgeting applications have one big problem (for me): 

* They require you to import balance statements, and either map expenses to categories beforehand or manually afterwards.

* What if I there was a problem with an import? 

* What if I later want to reassign categories, or rename them?

My solution: Don't import into a custom format! Instead, just always parse the source! Why?

  * Custom format means custom fiddling, what if the app dies? The source files are most likely CSV and will be human-readable in any number of years in the future

  * I don't actually want to edit the imported data! I just want to assign categories to certain matching statements.

  * I will never have to edit imported data, as all my category-assignment will be done for *all* statements.

  * Is this going to be slow? Are you kidding me, unless you got billions of statements, you won't even notice it!