dbosk/budget

A simple command-line budget tool to keep track of expenses, past and future

I’m Lecturer in Computer Science at the Division of Theoretical Computer Science, Department of Computer Science at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of KTH Royal Institute of Technology.

I'm interested in

• e-learning and have developed distance courses/programmes since 2011,
• teaching in programming and security,
• research in didactics and computer security, particularly democracy-enhancing technologies.

I teach Python and security, I do a lot of automation in Python.

budget's Issues

Have a daemon process keep track of the budget and notify when needed

Have a daemon process keep track of the budget and expenses in the bank (see #5) and notify when needed, e.g. if exceeding the budget. The notifications can be sent via email.

We must introduce a way to keep track of dates for the loans, then the daemon can remind us about when to renegotiate interest-rate discounts etc.

Add integration of loans

Integrate loans into the budget predictions. Take interest rates, discounts, accumulated interest etc. into account in the budget.

Add prediction of future expenses

One way to predict the future expenses is to use the mean and standard deviation of previous expenses. It's interesting to look at both the yearly and monthly statistics.

Automatically parse the expenses from the on-line banking accounts

Use the banks' APIs (e.g. Swedbank) to get the real expenses from the account and add them automatically.

Add support for adding future (big) expenses

We want to be able to add future big expenses, like buying a new car, apartment etc. We can give each such big expense a priority and then the budget algorithm will set when it's possible under the current budget constraints.

We can also specify whether to finance an expense by savings or a loan (see #2).

Write budget wrapper for Ledger backend

Implement basic budget functionality using the ledger backend:

• support grouping expenses by months, years;
• support recurrent incomes and expenses;
• support for different budget posts, e.g. household, entertainment (user specific);
• support for savings;
• unused resources should accumulate to later months.