[GNC] personal accounting. Work flow?

[John Griessen]

On 9/25/25 14:03, Carlo Albrile wrote:
> What is the workflow people generally follow?
> 
> Any suggestions?

To reduce the effort of some categories of receipts, make an invoice for some projects and track them, and let the rest go into 
the category of "untracked cash I spend" with no invoice or anything.

For the memory problem, write category on receipts as you get them.

For the "no receipt" problem, there's no lower effort method I can think of than "receipts go in an envelope".

Another thing I do recently, (as memory sharpness declines with age), is tear off unnecessary parts and fold receipts and put in 
wallet until occasionally unloading them into envelopes or scanning.

I keep very little new paper for long anymore, just scans.  That requires good backups though, and most won't do that level of 
effort/expense.