[jimbob45]

You could combine this with a quick cronjob to send notifications about daily/weekly spending but I don’t know an easy way to send texts without dipping into Twilio, which is difficult. If you’re okay having emails notify you, that might work.

Maybe enter purchases in a linked spreadsheet from your phone to your desktop to track purchases? Might just be better off sucking up purchase information from your bank’s API to your spreadsheet. Smaller bank APIs tend to suck though.

[anticorporate]

I have the spreadsheet sync to my phone. I thought about a little form front end for it, but it's really not worth it for the amount of data points I collect ($today, $amount, $location).

Since I review my finances weekly, there's really no need for notifications. Habit is enough. My bank already sends me notifications for possible fraud (almost always incorrectly, but I suppose I'd rather it err in that direction than the other).

Simple works for me, but there are certainly some ways to add complexity to it if that's helpful to you.

[jppope]

> I don’t know an easy way to send texts

Most of the major telcomms have an email to text setup. Verizon is {phone_number}@vtext.com, AT&T is {phone_number}@txt.att.net

[leosanchez]

> You could combine this with a quick cronjob to send notifications about daily/weekly spending but I don’t know an easy way to send texts without dipping into Twilio, which is difficult. If you’re okay having emails notify you, that might work.

I use telegram or ntfy to notify myself.