budget-tracker 0.5.1

A TUI based budget tracker
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Description

A minimal TUI based budget tracker.

Users can track date, a brief description, the type of purchase and the total amount spent/received. For example, the following expense types are supported by default, but users can create their own types too while adding a transaction.

  • Food
  • Travel
  • Fun
  • Medical
  • Personal

The data by default is stored at ~/.local/share/budget-tracker/expenses.csv.

Usage

  • To install the program, make sure to have cargo installed, then run the following command.
cargo install budget-tracker

If the PATH is not set directly add the following to your shell profile.

export PATH="$HOME/.cargo/bin:$PATH"
  • To see graphical data run:
budget-tracker
  • To add a new entry (add - infront of amount to show expenses) run any one of:
budget-tracker --add
budget-tracker -a
  • To manually edit the database run any one of:
budget-tracker --edit
budget-tracker -e

By default it opens using nano. To specify an editor set the EDITOR environment variable.

EDITOR=vim budget-tracker --edit

This will open the file in vim.

  • To search for a keyword or a particular expense type you can run as follows
budget-tracker -s <SEARCH_QUERY>
budget-tracker --search <SEARCH_QUERY>

Here the search query can either be a substring of the description (the search support fuzzy searching) or the expense type, the program automatically accounts for both.

  • To exit press 'q'

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