so far, I choose Squirrel

the last 2 candidates for personal finance app are Squirrel and Money3. I don’t wanna spend more time on evaluation. So I choose Squirrel because I’m familiar with it and it’s also cheaper than Money3. All fancy features are not a must, but good to have. Squirrel is easy-to-use and have enough fancy (useful as well) features.

Squirrel is now €15 but its price will be raised to €30 once version 0.8 release. I’m still using demo version until 50 transactions quota run out. Hope version 0.8 won’t release by then.

http://blog.squirrelapp.com/

Personal Finance Apps : candidates

I should take a look and put my hand on this kind of app before make up my mind to spent about 20$ for Squirrel. Using Squirrel as a benchmark, these are candidates for personal finance apps on Mac chosen from 28 apps in this list : http://www.davidgagne.net/2008/07/26/microsoft-money-and-a-mac/

• Jumsoft’s Money3 (39$)
• Cha-Ching (40$)
• MotiMotion’s Prospects (30$)
• iCompta (free!)
• FinanceToGo (45$)
• iFinance (20$)

Process by Jumsoft

Process is an app for task management. I got a copy of license from MacHeist.com for free. Process was installed into my mac but I didn’t actually use it yet. but I had a quick look on it, IMO I prefer iGTD for my tasks so far.

http://www.jumsoft.com/process/

problem with my task management skill

I start thinking that I use iGTD as task management tool not so effectively. Omnifocus and Midnight Inbox are commercial apps for task management using GTD concept those I’ll try as alternative. Maybe tool isn’t a problem, but it might be my task management skill. I should fix it ASAP.

http://www.igtd.pl/iGTD/
http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnifocus/
http://www.midnightbeep.com/index-beep.html

iClockr was installed

While I’m falling deeper and deeper in love with Squirrel which helps me a lot for personal financial management, I still look for app on OSX to help me manage my time spent on each task or project. and I found iClockr, http://www.iclockr.com/ , free app on Mac OSX worked as time tracker. iClockr works based on project-tasks-duration. I’ve downloaded & installed it on my MacBook Pro yesterday but didn’t try it on real-world using yet. I’ll use it on my next project to see how much it helps.