Get Rich Slowly-reader David points to the AIM BudgetBot, posted yesterday at Lifehacker. Adam Pash writes:
I used to save all of my receipts with a half-assed intention to reconcile them when I got around to it, which usually meant two weeks worth of crumpled, illegible receipts went straight from my pockets to the trash. Not very Lifehacker-y, huh? [...] I set out to create my own BudgetBot that I could SMS from my cell phone any time I made a purchase and log the expenses in a text file.
The results are remarkable. This video demonstrates just what the AIM BudgetBot can do:
Obviously this isn’t a complete personal finance solution. But the AIM BugetBot is an excellent way for techgeeks to keep a running tally of their current financial state. If I had a cell-phone, I would use this.
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Perhaps my cell plan is out of date, but it puzzles me why this is attractive, since there’s text-messaging fees. Can’t see paying to send messages to my budgetbot, todobot, or whatever. The costs would outweigh the savings.
Am I out-of-touch with current offerings?
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I don’t use the phone text messaging, but I use AIM all day because I sit in front of a computer all day. So right after lunch I message my buddy MoneyBot and he updates my balance for me. It’s not really necessary but I enjoy it. =)
I plan on looking into text messaging it though, I have a verizon data plan where it is something like $0.15 per kilobyte so it ends up being around $4 each month, and I send a TON of text messages to my friends..
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I use expenseview.com, which I found as an add -on to iGoogle home pages. It’s pretty similar, I think.
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