Comments on: Ever track your money using a calendar?! Here’s a reader’s review of a new app he’s obsessed with.

By: J. Money

J. Money — Fri, 27 Mar 2020 19:19:04 +0000

In reply to Beth H.

I think you should relay this over to them and see if they can roll it into an upgrade later :)

https://calendarbudget.com/home/submit-ticket/

By: Beth H

Beth H — Fri, 27 Mar 2020 17:01:58 +0000

I LOVE this app for tracking money. However it sucks to track your budget and here’s why. I set up all of my spending categories, set up my checking and savings accounts plus multiple accounts to represent the accounts I want to pay off (i.e. my debt). Awesome so far! Absolutely LOVE seeing my daily balances in my checking account as well as progress in paying off debt! So, checking and savings are positive $ amounts and debts are negative $. Which leads us to the problem. When I transfer money say from Checking to Car Payment, because I’m transferring a positive amount into a negative account, the app won’t recognize the transaction because it basically zeroes itself out (because the app ties spending categories to ALL accounts when it should just be tied to activity that happens in checking/main account). Kind of a bummer because you can’t get an honest overview of your overall categories and you can’t see how much you’ve put towards credit card debt on your budget because it doesn’t register. The solution would be to tie the budget categories to only transactions occurring in the main checking account and ignore the negative transactions into debt accounts. Which is all fine I guess, because I only use this account to track spending on a day to day basis. Would like to use budget feature once in a while though.

By: J. Money

J. Money — Mon, 09 Sep 2019 18:59:55 +0000

In reply to Barb. Excellent!! Thanks for chiming in!

By: J. Money

J. Money — Mon, 09 Sep 2019 18:59:30 +0000

In reply to Kate. Love even more that you're willing to share the fact you attend AA!! Self-improvement all around is sexy!!! ;)

By: J. Money

J. Money — Mon, 09 Sep 2019 18:58:27 +0000

In reply to Wes G.

Awesome!!

So glad you found something that works for you, man – appreciate you sharing and breaking it down for us! Hadn’t heard of CalendarLabs.com before.

By: J. Money

J. Money — Mon, 09 Sep 2019 18:56:20 +0000

In reply to Ramona @ The All Finance. It's only worth it if it *works* :)

By: Barb

Barb — Mon, 09 Sep 2019 18:27:15 +0000

I have been using this app since April 2013 and LOVE it. I am able to plan out my spending and move individual events to another day if need be. I can see what my account will look like next month…5 months…1 year…5 years from now. I have repeating events like paycheck and mortgage and then have specific events like coffee run or a special night out. I use it on my PC as well on my cell.
The best thing on the market.
Thank you.

By: Samantha

Samantha — Mon, 09 Sep 2019 14:47:18 +0000

In reply to Kate. Love it! I have yet to see another YNABer in the wild, but I will be *so* excited when I do!

By: Ramona @ The All Finance

Ramona @ The All Finance — Mon, 09 Sep 2019 13:14:07 +0000

In reply to [HCF]. There are so many apps for productivity and money, it's not funny anymore. I am trying to find some that are simple and yet have all the features and I'm resorting to use an excel for my web design tasks (after trying Asana, Trello, Freedcamp and others) and YNAB the old computer-based app or AceMoney. Will look into this calendar as well, but I really dislike the idea of paying for each app every month, when I am already paying for hosting, SEMrush and others that I need in my work.

By: Kate

Kate — Mon, 09 Sep 2019 12:05:23 +0000

I love app budget related things and people! I’m a YNABer myself and was in an AA meeting last week and was very excited when I saw the same app open on another person’s phone. We Sexy Budgeters really are everywhere! When the hat got passed around I wonder what category he put his $1 contribution down as…