In a discussion about financial organization, someone pointed out www.wesabe.com , which is freaking. Awesome. I’ve looked at some other ones, and tried Quicken before, but it was almost impossible to synch with my credit union, and it was still a pita to set up.

ANYWAY. Wesabe kicks ass. Really easy to understand interface, and their firefox uploader is what makes it so perfect — I admit, I was expecting it to maybe only half work, what with the combination of a mac, and a local credit union, but nope… it worked awesome. And once you tag and edit your transactions, it remembers that, so it automatically converts whatever the CU transaction has "Hannaford #123 Union" or whatever, into "Hannaford" and files it into "groceries." or Irving is gas. Whatever. So I only have assign categories once for my most popular expenses (groceries, gas, childcare, etc), and I click a button, and it will all update and download and blah blah blah. AND! I’m one of the weird geeks who doesn’t have a printer, so I always just save-as the html file of an online receipt or itinerary or whatever, but another feature of the firefox widget for wesabe is that you can take that screenshot, and it will automatically attach to the transaction. Wicked cool.  I’ve only added our cash accounts, not our long term savings or the credit card or anything, but it is wicked, wicked cool.

Really good tale brewing, hopefully can tell it soon.