> bank: instead you can get all your transaction data as a csv, an xlsx, or an ofx or whatever Quicken or Microsoft Money thing I don't even know why is this a

> bank: instead you can get all your transaction data as a csv, an xlsx, or an ofx or whatever Quicken or Microsoft Money thing I don't even know why is this a thing (i.e. who had to sacrifice himself to the gods of IT interoperability so that a lot of banks offered this) , but all of these formats are actually very well documented these days. It's a GOD. SEND. that even the most terrible of banks seems to offer this, double plus good when no one at the bank even knows what "Quicken" is.