Life Balance and finance planning
October 29th, 2007
One appeal of Life Balance has to do with the similarities to GnuCash - my finance accounting tool of choice.
Indeed,
- GnuCash is about money accounting, Life Balance is about time/efforts accounting,
- GnuCash has a tree of bookkeeping accounts, Life Balance has a tree of projects,
- GnuCash has a number of useful reports, Life Balance has reports too, albeit only two: the dynamically compiled To-Do List (frankly, the main product of the system) and … the Balance report.
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GnuCash for Windows available after 10 years in UNIX
October 23rd, 2007
GnuCash team has been famous in the past for their harshness towards anything “Windows”. No wonder - the 1st version of GC was written in 1997 in Motif for X Window System which was (and still is?) light years ahead of substandard Microsoft Windows GUI in terms of professional usability.
It seemed nobody expected them (GnuCash) to release a Windows port. Me wasn’t exception either. So when I had to move from X to MS Windows I also had to keep a subsidiary UNIX machine (thank God, virtual computer was OK) special for UNIX applications, most notably for GnuCash.
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