Writing a Sharp Zaurus PDA GnuCash Companion

Derek Atkins warlord@MIT.EDU
22 Aug 2002 15:02:50 -0400


I agree.. I think that this app's best place would be "on the road,
real-time data entry", generally of expenses but also other
transactions.  In particular for a business context, I would expect
employees to use this to keep track of expenses while travelling, or
for home users to enter expenses in real-time, or when they get cash
from an ATM.

I don't think i'd except this app to be fully featured.

Also note that not all data entry (at least in CVS) is a financial
"transaction."

-derek

Josh Sled <jsled@asynchronous.org> writes:

> On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 08:38:01AM +0100, Colin Pinkney wrote:
> 
> | while to boot up and so I easily find myself falling behind in keeping
> | things up to date. My Zaurus however is always at hand, can be turned on
> | instantly and if I do a good job data can be entered fairly quickly too, so
> | I could use it to enter purchases, bills etc as they come in.
> 
> That sounds great... I think you should definitely focus on quickly entering
> detailed records of expenses and bills ... the reporting-module's job
> [and eventually the budgeting subsystem's job] is limited by the quality
> [and granularity] of data put into GnuCash, and as you say sometimes
> it's too heavyweight to keep detailed records.  If the Zaurus app can
> make that quick and easy, then the user totally wins.
> 
> ...jsled
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