Buddi: Personal finances without a headache
Feb 15, 2009, 22:03 (1 Talkback[s])
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"To make sense of all the entered data, Buddi provides
two useful features: Reports and Graphs. The former allows you to
easily generate reports of your income and expenses for a certain
period of time and grouped by Category or Description. Generating a
report is as easy as choosing a time period from the appropriate
drop-down list in the Reports section. While you can't customize
the default reports, they provide more information than you'll
probably ever need. The only caveat here is that Buddi generates
reports in the HTML format and displays them in the browser. A
built-in feature with a printing option would have been a better
solution. If plain tables full of data don't tickle your fancy, you
might want to try Buddi's Graphs feature, which helps you to
visualize your financial data. Similar to Reports, you only have to
select a desired time period from the appropriate drop-down list,
and Buddi takes care of the rest.
"Finally, you can extend Buddi's functionality by installing
plugins. While the current list of available plugins is rather
short, there are a few rather useful ones among them. For example,
if you need to exchange your financial data with other
applications, you'll appreciate the plugin that can import and
export data in the CSV and QIF formats. To install a plugin,
download and unpack it. In Buddi, choose Preferences, click on the
Plugins tab, press the Add button, and select the unpakced .jar
file. Restart Buddi, and the plugin is ready for use. If you've
installed, for example, the ExportQIF plugin, it appears under the
File -- Export menu."
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