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Budse is a simple budgeting application that provides a user interface and persistent storage for "bucket budgeting" (also known as "envelope budgeting").  It is, arguably, a huge upgrade from using spreadsheets for budget management in terms of administration and ease of use.  Budse is generally pretty customizable.

Feedback is completely welcome.  The author can be contacted via e-mail <derek@goingthewongway.com>.

Bugs and feature requests are also very welcome (http://sf.net/tracker/?group_id=251382).

...they'll never take...OUR FREEDOM!

    This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
    the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
    (at your option) any later version.

    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
    GNU General Public License for more details.

    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
    along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.




-----------------------------------Migrating-----------------------------------

2.x to 3.0 
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A database conversion is necessary BEFORE running Budse 3.0 for the first time.  This can be done by executing convert.exe (or convert.py from trunk) within the same directory as the data.db file that Budse uses.  convert.exe can be downloaded from http://sf.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=251382

This convert.exe should only be run ONE TIME.  

As usual BACKUP YOUR DATA before doing this, just in case something goes terribly wrong.  You have been warned.


1.x to 2.x
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How did you get your hands on the source code?  I doubt anyone out there used this way back then.