I used GnuCash religiously from around 2005 until 2011. Every transaction, every account, credit cards, the works. I was the kind of person who reconciled to the penny every month and felt vaguely anxious if I didn’t.
Then life had other plans.
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Since I started writing code in the early 80s I’ve always had a notebook with me. In high school and college it was a spiral notebook. I’d sit in the cafeteria between classes with a cup of coffee and literally write code by hand to transcribe and edit when I got home. At the office it was a steno pad. Once I wasn’t in school, it was just the steno pad. I used to buy them in bulk at Costco.
The steno pad stuck around for decades. Smaller than a spiral notebook, the top spiral meant flipping pages didn’t cover my keyboard or mouse. No organization system, no hierarchy, no folders. Just notes, most recent at the bottom, flip through to find what you need. It worked. I still have a desk drawer with half a dozen steno pads in it.
That’s what I wanted to build.
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