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What do you use to manage your money?

How do you manage your money?

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davidg4781

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Oct 28, 2006
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Alice, TX
So I think I'm finally fed up with Quicken and in my search for a better financial management program, I've found out a lot of my friends don't use any financial management software:eek::eek:!

So I'm curious what others do. I've used Quicken/Money since 1996 when I first had a computer. For a few years I didn't have one (early days of computing) I used the checkbook register.

What do y'all use and why?

And of course, since I'm looking for financial management software, I will take recommendations. I would VERY MUCH (read: must) like to have one that can download my transactions from the internet. I'm currently using Quicken 2006 and want something new. I was beta testing Quicken Financial Life, but they updated and I wasn't able to download the update. MS Money is not an option as I'm a Mac user and don't want to bother loading Windows just for that.
 
I'd used Quicken since about 1995, updating every 3 years or so. Most recently I was using Quicken 2005 & I tried the Quicken Financial Life beta (a couple of different releases). I also tried many different personal financial programs & decided on Moneydance. I wanted something that would run natively on my Intel Macs & Moneydance is written in Java.
 
Quicken online is free, isn't it? I think I tried it out, but there was some reason why I didn't like it. Part of it could have been the fee.
 
I run a business and have at least 20 accounts that I use Quicken to manage and access online. Would any of the online services mentioned work for me?

Also, what about running reports and exporting to a spreadsheet? Scheduled transactions?
 
Have you checked out this software....

....Moneydance is a pretty good application that I have found. It is quite simple, doesn't have the annoying ad's that accompany M$ Money, Quicken. I am hell bent against allowing the program to connect to my bank online and download the statements. I usually download them myself and then import all the transactions into Moneydance. Just google it and they do offer a trial version in case you want to try it out.

I believe they are working on a new release, but the creator doesn't mention how soon they plan on releasing the newer version.
 
So those of you that are using Quicken, what are you planning to do when you upgrade to Snow Leopard?

I'd like to not install Rosetta, as the only applications I use it for are Office and Quicken. I can certainly do without Office, but I cannot do without Quicken. I've tried some of the other money management software, but I haven't come across any that made me want to buy them.
 
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