Personal accounting tool
Snidget is a python program which tracks your financial information, in particular your expenses and income. The user adds each transaction on their accounts and snidget can provide reports about how much you're spending.
This program was written by Gregory Paciga ([email protected])
in his free time. Bugs, requests, and suggestions can be sent to him,
or through GitHub.
The Snidget code is hosted at https://github.com/gpaciga/snidget.
The program started out being called, very creatively, "budget", then changed to "budgie" to sound cuter, but a finance program called "budgie" already existed, so it was renamed after another small bird (also with a name similar to "budget") and became "snidget", which is actually a fictional bird from the Harry Potter universe and therefore much cooler than a budgie.
Before you start using snidget, you will want to customize it a bit. The two most important things are accounts and types.
You will want to add the accounts you are keeping track of. By default Snidget has Bank, Credit, and Cash accounts, but you might want to make accounts for specific banks or credit cards, for example. You do this by running something like
snidget.py -o delaccount Bank -o addaccount RBC
snidget.py -o delaccount Credit -o addaccount Mastercard
You may also want to add or delete the "types". Types are categories
of transactions, for example all purchases of food could go under a
type 'Food', while all bills go under 'Bills'. Similarly to accounts,
you can add and remove types with -o deltype and -o addtype.
Use -o help to see what other options are available.
Most of the time you will use the -n and -p command line options
to add new transactions to your database and to print the database,
respectively. For other usage options, try -h.
If you run snidget without any command line arguments, a basic graphical interface will run.
See LICENSE.