How I’m Using the Collections App: Budgeting and a Creativity Log
How I’m Using the Collections App: Budgeting and a Creativity Log
This is the second entry in a two-part series on different uses case I’ve found for the Collections database app in my daily life. If you haven’t yet read the first half of the series, check it out in MacStories Weekly Issue 423 for an introduction to Collections, its basic concepts, and a couple of other ways that I’m using it.
Personal Budget
After finishing up my MacStories article link-saver and car maintenance log, I decided to tackle an area of my life that is very important to me: budgeting. I am an unashamed personal finance nerd, and I like to keep my accounts balanced to the penny using the envelope budgeting method. I’ve tried nearly every budgeting app out there and found most of them incompatible with the way I manage my money. (Is the theme of this series that I’m too picky about apps?) I don’t want pre-defined categories or AI to help me; just let me create budget lines, fill them, and spend from them, please.