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2026-07-18 19:31 UTC
@tommertron@masto.yttrx.com i think about these kinds of apps all of the time — im so happy that we’re breaking out of reliance on spreadsheets for more artisanal solutions. sure, a spreadsheet is the tool that can do anything, but I dont know if that means it can do anything well. i like the idea of artisanal solutions like this, especially since its powered by sqlite and can have a couple of sql queries generate all of the data in csv if you ever wanted to move the data back to a spreadsheet.
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@tommertron@masto.yttrx.com 2026-07-18 19:36
@waffles@masto.yttrx.com Yeah we actually used a spreadsheet for this exact thing for a number of years and it was a beast. It was set up for ease of entry where each row was a date and each column an account. But of course if you understand data structures you can appreciate what a pain it was to do formulas to categorize and parse all that. This has a nice entry interface, plus a proper database structure. And I was able to migrate everything from my old spreadsheet. Plus all my data lives on the pi, not on google’s servers! (Backed up to my Mac mini, backed up to backblaze).