Taken from Zen Habits. Every Wednesday is Financial Tips Day at Zen Habits. Recently I got some amazing responses from all of you in Ask the Readers: What are your financial tools? and I wanted to share some of the best tools I’ve found from that thread. And the thing I like most about them: unlike Quicken and Microsoft Money, they’re free! Excel or Google Spreadsheets . Perhaps the simplest tool of all. Create your own (I did) or find an excellent one already created: Pear Budget , Of Zen and Computing’s simple spreadsheet, Get Rich Slowly’s spreadsheet . The appeal of this is that it’s extremely flexible, it’s simple, it’s fast and easy, it’s free and, if you keep it really simple, you can put it online with Google Spreadsheets. Gnu Cash . Now available for Windows for the first time, Gnu Cash was designed for Linux and is available for OSX and other operating systems. It’s totally free (under the GNU GPL), easy to use, even if it isn’t as pretty as more expensive software. Ver...
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