I use Mint.com to great effect. It’s free, it allows you to track all your bank accounts and investments and any property you care to keep track of. It also lets you set budgets.
It doesn’t do anything for tracking time.
If you use it you will inevitably find shortfalls. For example, you will inevitably wish that you could apply this month’s budget assumptions to previous months in order to test out the budget’s performance, and you’ll realize that you can’t do that. But all software has limitations.
What’s a minimalist, free, personal finance software to keep track of what I own, possess, am in invested in, spending my time and budgeting?
Is there some reason punching ‘minimalist free personal finance software’ into Google did not help you out?
http://www.ledger-cli.org/ is minimalist in some dimensions, I think less so in others.
Seconding this. I use the hledger variant.
Whatever Open/Libre Office calls their spreadsheet.
Not sure how minimalist you want to go, though. A shell and a filesystem are sufficient, if you want to be really minimalist :-/
I use Mint.com to great effect. It’s free, it allows you to track all your bank accounts and investments and any property you care to keep track of. It also lets you set budgets.
It doesn’t do anything for tracking time.
If you use it you will inevitably find shortfalls. For example, you will inevitably wish that you could apply this month’s budget assumptions to previous months in order to test out the budget’s performance, and you’ll realize that you can’t do that. But all software has limitations.
pocketbook; YNAB (you need a budget)
Notepad/TextEdit. If you want a few more features than that, MySQL. If you want a few more features than that, http://www.gnucash.org/