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This is a nice project, but I like the simplicity and portability of a google docs file that is just a running log. I can just give that file over to a new owne

This is a nice project, but I like the simplicity and portability of a google docs file that is just a running log. I can just give that file over to a new owner.

invizabl 3y ago
I'm curious - do you put new entries at the top of the bottom of the Google Doc? Do you include copies of receipts as well?
- prepend 3y ago
  I’ve tried both ways and currently just append to the top with a date stamp. I have an existing method for storing receipts and documents for everything so I just put my receipts there and include a link to it.
samstave 3y ago
+1. My GF is a highly successful person, her sister is a highly successful person. I had to create a Sheets for them to reconcile expenses so it shows who paid and who owes what - and I had it load images of their shared dog in the sheet for them... I made GF owner, and they have been using it for ~3 years now with a tab for each month. It was a life saver over reducing my noise on their $ bickering sisters thingamajig. Anyway - build a google doc/sheet/etc for others when they need it, to keep things quiet. These women are so smart, but couldnt manage a split bill for stuff in any given month, until I built that Sheet - and they thank me to this day.... But its SO fn simple to build things in Sheets/Excel (MS' greatedst program - watch Martin Skrelli's vids on youtube to see how powerful Excel is)
- JoeAltmaier 3y ago
  Oh yes! Build quick stuff for folks, yields so many dividends! My wife was doing work for her Anthropology professor, translating coordinates using some goofy coordinate system that some paleontology folks use. Was constantly referring to some page in a book and copying stuff out, making mistakes. I made her an Excel macro to take the coordinates in one column and generate the translation in another. Simple, took under an hour. Used it for years. Generated a sensation in the department. So, yeah, worth doing.
  - samstave 3y ago
    Want macro - build a Sheet and send it here.
- philsnow 3y ago
  > Sheets/Excel (MS' greatedst program I regularly refer to Excel as one of the only pieces of software that I consider to be "good" software and that I actually like. Though, I never had to use Excel on a Mac. I hear it got worse after some bad MSFT/AAPL stuff happened.
  - samstave 3y ago
    Aside to linux what do you think the best software ever made? we need a hall of fame for software. (the reason i mentioned linux is just because of its cloud % )

This is a nice project, but I like the simplicity and portability of a google docs file that is just a running log. I can just give that file over to a new owner.

invizabl 3y ago

I'm curious - do you put new entries at the top of the bottom of the Google Doc? Do you include copies of receipts as well?

prepend 3y ago
I’ve tried both ways and currently just append to the top with a date stamp. I have an existing method for storing receipts and documents for everything so I just put my receipts there and include a link to it.

samstave 3y ago

+1. My GF is a highly successful person, her sister is a highly successful person. I had to create a Sheets for them to reconcile expenses so it shows who paid and who owes what - and I had it load images of their shared dog in the sheet for them... I made GF owner, and they have been using it for ~3 years now with a tab for each month. It was a life saver over reducing my noise on their $ bickering sisters thingamajig. Anyway - build a google doc/sheet/etc for others when they need it, to keep things quiet. These women are so smart, but couldnt manage a split bill for stuff in any given month, until I built that Sheet - and they thank me to this day.... But its SO fn simple to build things in Sheets/Excel (MS' greatedst program - watch Martin Skrelli's vids on youtube to see how powerful Excel is)

JoeAltmaier 3y ago
Oh yes! Build quick stuff for folks, yields so many dividends! My wife was doing work for her Anthropology professor, translating coordinates using some goofy coordinate system that some paleontology folks use. Was constantly referring to some page in a book and copying stuff out, making mistakes. I made her an Excel macro to take the coordinates in one column and generate the translation in another. Simple, took under an hour. Used it for years. Generated a sensation in the department. So, yeah, worth doing.
- samstave 3y ago
  Want macro - build a Sheet and send it here.
philsnow 3y ago
> Sheets/Excel (MS' greatedst program I regularly refer to Excel as one of the only pieces of software that I consider to be "good" software and that I actually like. Though, I never had to use Excel on a Mac. I hear it got worse after some bad MSFT/AAPL stuff happened.
- samstave 3y ago
  Aside to linux what do you think the best software ever made? we need a hall of fame for software. (the reason i mentioned linux is just because of its cloud % )