Moneybags is a way to track your financial independence track in Singapore's context. This is still very much a work in progress, see the 'Feature Roadmap' for more details. We use Grafana as the frontend and it is assumed that Grafana is installed at the moment.
To account for everyday spending, I have been writing into my saved messages and parsing them every month. This is extremely tedious. The aim here is to write a small parser to understand how I spend.
This list is not exhaustive but a wishlist that I would work on when I'm free. Mostly credit to this link.
- Stock Portfolio
- Monthly expenditure
- Income
- Total Net assets
- Automatic detection of investment amount
- Financial Independence Quotient
- Mortgage
- Telegram bot to record expenses
- Other depreciating assets like car
- Recurring transactions
- liveness/readiness probes
Typing help or any unknown command will return the help interface.
| Type | Explanation |
|---|---|
| reim | Amount to be reimbursed, usually paying first using CC and friends paying back later. |
| shared reim | Amount to be reimbursed, usually paying first using CC and taking from shared account. |
| special shared reim | Amount to be reimbursed, usually paying first using CC and taking from shared account, not counting into regular spend. |
| shared | Amount that is shared but other party had paid first. |
| special shared | Amount that is shared but other party had paid first and it's a one off thing. |
| own | Regular type of spending for ownself. |
| special own | Amount that is spent for myself but special events. |
| tithe | Amount given to parents. |
| cc | Amount paid using credit card. |
| tax | Amount paid to the tax man. |
| insurance | Amount spent for insurance. |
| shared cc reim | Amount used for the shared credit card but for personal use and to be reimbursed |
Classification could be any string field. This is for your own note taking and not used in a special way.
| Class | Explanation |
|---|---|
| meal | Amount spent on meals. |
| housing | Amount spent on housing needs. |
| whatever you want | whatever description you give it |
User: ADD <PRICE (no $ sign)> <Optional date (will automatically fix to yyyy-mm-dd), you can even write 'yesterday'> Service returns: ``` Created Transaction ID: 5 Date: 2023-04-02 14:14:48 +0800 +08 Type: OWN Classification: hellowyellow Amount:123.200000
### Deleting a transaction
User: DEL <ID>
Service returns: ```
Deleted Transaction ID: 5
Date: 2023-04-02 14:14:48 +0800 +08
Type: OWN
Classification: hellowyellow
Amount:123.200000
User: GEN APR 2023 Service returns:
---expenses.csv---
2023-04-30,Others,23.40
2023-04-30,Reimbursement,-46.80
2023-04-30,Insurance,200.54
2023-04-30,Tithe,200.32
2023-04-30,Credit Card,23.40
2023-04-30,Tax,23.40
---shared_expenses.csv---
2023-04-03,table,223.20
2023-04-04,Special:furniture,200.20
We use protocol buffers to generate some configuration files.
go install github.com/golang/protobuf/protoc-gen-go@latest