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Those who know me well know that I am obsessive-compulsive when it comes to organisation. Unless that organisation involves my finances. I’ll admit, I’m an impulse shopper, and a hopeless organiser of my own money.

That could be all set to change, thanks to a handy-dandy piece of open source software (and I’m a sucker for OSS). Please welcome my (possible) saviour,Buddi!

Buddi is a very simple personal finance manager. It may share the name of a purple gorilla infamous for spyware, but this little app seems much safer.

After setting a password to encrypt your personal file, you enter your accounts on one screen, and update the transactions as they occur. It’s a little time-consuming, but it gives you some nice graphs on your net worth. Hooray!

The other part of Buddi is the budget. It’s quite simple. You enter your incomings, your outgoings, put them into categories for a pretty display, and you end up with a hopefully positive figure for the end of the month, which is what is left over. This should be how much you can save.

Anyway, it’s written in Java, and runs flawlessly on my MacBook Pro, and is supposed to be just as easy on Windows and Linux. So if you’re completely hopeless like me, you might be able to stretch those dollars a little further each month. For screenshots, check out this page.