Mathieu Jobin's Life and Thoughts

Hi everyone,

just to let people know I fix the help system, some might have wanted to email me but unfortunately it was broken for some time. this is now fix.

if you encounter any issue. please post your questions/comments into the help system.

for new users, please keep in mind justbudget has been thought as an "expense tracker". You write down what you spend and then it gives your a clear picture on your habits. When you see Starbuck in your top 5 popular locations with total spent amount of 2000$... you're thinking maybe I had prefer getting a new computer instead of this bad coffee.

happy budgeting

Tags budget, Budgeting, bug, fix, help, justbudget

Sorry everyone. it is really not on this note I wanted to write this message today.

But Lets start with the good news. a few days ago, I spent the time fixing the issue with the calendar. you can set your expenses date and time again. I also fixed the QFX import function. it should work as expected for everyone(tm). please let me know if you encounter any other problem.

And just because good news never comes alone, I made a small mistake today causing the lost of one full day of transaction. All new expenses/transactions you might have entered between April 19th 2010 17h15 New york time and April 20th 17h15 is lost.

How sad as justbudget just entered his 61th month of activity...

Again, very sorry. it won't happen again. And happy budgeting.

Subject

Negative Balance

Question

When I type in my salary in an income entry, it shows a negative balance of that amount (e.g., I type in 2770, and it shows a balance of -2770). When I then type in my expenses, it reduces the negative amount by that number (so, income is 2770, gas is 40, balance shows -2730). So it seems the program is confusing my expenses and income. I really want to use this site, but I can't figure out how to get it to work.

Also, when I go to edit an entry, I can't find the way to edit the "reapeats" section.

Please Help!

Hi,

1 - Yes this is true. but this is only for per-page-total on the transactions list page. it is the way the system works, this total is mainly used when you do a search, actually. you can ignore it. "Home" page and "Stats" page are most important.

2 - to edit recurring options, you must edit the recurring record under the recurring expenses list page. at stored expenses in your transaction list are now just regular transactions.

have fun budgeting.

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The Green Party is nationally in third place. We can win seats. You can help us do it.

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In my last post I was talking about increasing blog activity and I left you all without any reply for two months.... How bad am I ???

Very sorry,... so here is a gift...

Biweekly recurring expenses (and more).

Yes I remade the internals of the recurring expenses system. and it is much better, much faster and much more flexible.

so many of you ask for it... and for so long. sorry I kept you waiting. Here it is now.

you can do, daily recurring expenses, weekly, biweekly, "twice a month", monthly and bimonthly.

have fun.

and thanks very much for using justbudget and for telling all your friends to do so.

I think I have been leaving my justbudget users in the blank for too long. I am really not blogging as often as I would wish. Sorry about that. I always intended to update the FAQ page on the site with the answers to the questions I receive. (by the way, many thanks for all your questions and comments and sorry for the delay).

Many of these answers would be useful to many users but unfortunately I never had the time to collect them all up and rewrite them properly into the FAQ. So I am thinking maybe I should just post the answer straight up on my blog (which is shown on the news page of justbudget). This way people can read them. It's google-able and information is never lost.

Another thing that might interest you is an article I found recently. I already talked about it on my regular blog. A friend of mine recommended me a personal finance related website. Get Rich Slowly which I found really interesting. Every page of the website invite us to read the "About" page which link to the origin of the website: A blog post. I highly recommend anybody interested in achieving financial independence to read this article first.

If you take a careful look at the "Step One: Prepare the Foundation" which includes 3 steps in its own. The second one of these is about cutting expenses. And I cannot stress this enough; The world as we know it keep pushing us to consume more and more, it's getting harder and harder to keep ourselves from buying all the new toys available.

anyway, the important point here is that if you keep spending, you quickly lose track of where all your money goes. Being always conscious can be stressful and very difficult. Just track your expenses somewhere so you can easily look them up anytime.

• so you know where you can cut
• so you can remember how much you paid for something the year or the month before.
• so you can easily remember where and when you went somewhere.
• and more

I love it.

So I am gonna start answering all emails directly on my blog very soon. stay tuned.

Hello everybody,

Today there is a small addition into justbudget. Something I wanted to do for a long time. As expected, it only took me a few minutes. Anyway it's done now.

When you create a new expense, you can select in which budget you want the expense to be inserted. This way, you don't have to switch budget before. I often forget to switch budget when I login and then I have to recreate my expenses in the proper budget. But now, I can just select it as I create the expense. It is also possible for you to edit an expense and change in which budget the expense is.

I hope this will be useful to other people.

Have fun and happy budgeting.

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In a world where fast access is everything, this service is right on time. Its simple, easy to use and effective in showing your cash flows. Thank you JustBudget team for allowing one more aspect of my life to be centralized and organized online.

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I kept it secret until today, but as some of you might know already. Justbudget has been translated in Japanese. I put the translation file on Oct 15th. If you see any mistakes, please submit them to me, I'll make sure it get corrected. And today I have another great surprise toward Japanese support in Justbudget. I finally fixed the 3dpie graph so it can display Japanese properly. I tried numerous attempt in the past year and I never could fine the proper combinaison to make everything work.

Probably the same bug was present with Chinese, Korean, etc. So the fix should do it for all. Unfortunately I can only test Japanese on my computer. So if you got category written in Japanese or any other Language, it should display fine in the flash chart.

Happy budgeting.

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So I finally created my Squidoo lens. Actually, My first squidoo lens is about justbudget, my little baby (web applicationaly speaking).

Squidoo is a free service that allow you to create a web page easily and earn money from it. I'm not totally sure how it works yet. but it seems like they share google advertising profits with the lensmaster. So, basically I am trying this out. see how much traffic this is gonna generate.

but one thing is sure, It was blazing fast to create my lens. thanks to RSS of course, most of the content is pulled from this blog. I might decide to create more lens later about other subject I care about. I am thinking, about KDE, Japan, Sports and who knows what.

Why don't you create your own lens to? You can earn cash and get famous. Go ahead.

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