As I’ve mentioned previously on my blog, I’m now working on a personal budget application titled Budget Machine. This one is open source, and hosted on GitHub so you can see the work in progress.

A quick overview of the features and goals:

• The focus is on tracking expenses and budgets. Most other personal finance apps focus on balancing accounts, so I’m writing this because it suits my needs better.
• I like charts, so I’m working on having charts that automatically update to reflect the current selection and view.
• Extra fields for clickable package tracking numbers, product URLs, and so forth would be fun to have.
• Of course, it has to look good. I’m looking at lots of other well-designed apps and aiming high for Budget Machine’s appearance and usability.

I like GitHub because it adds a more social aspect to open source programming. Please feel free to leave any comments or ideas you have either here or in the project’s wiki or issues pages.