{"id":131,"date":"2008-12-23T09:20:25","date_gmt":"2008-12-23T13:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabeanderson.com\/2008\/12\/23\/manage-finances-automatically-with-mintcom\/"},"modified":"2008-12-23T09:20:25","modified_gmt":"2008-12-23T13:20:25","slug":"manage-finances-automatically-with-mintcom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gabeanderson.com\/tech-blog\/2008\/12\/23\/manage-finances-automatically-with-mintcom\/","title":{"rendered":"Manage Finances Automatically with Mint.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve long been a <a href=\"http:\/\/quicken.intuit.com\/\">Quicken<\/a> user and still use it for the primary management of mine and my wife&#8217;s finances (currently on Quicken Deluxe 2007). I&#8217;ve also tried out just about every online financial management tool out there, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wesabe.com\/\">Wesabe<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/Mint.com\">Mint.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Since my first interaction with it during its beta period, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mint.com\/\">Mint.com<\/a> has consistently impressed me and stood above the rest, for its simplicity, comprehensiveness, and ease of use.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mint.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gabeanderson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/snag-1915.png\" alt=\"Mint.com\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Plus, it&#8217;s almost totally automated: You configure your accounts once and from then on, it automatically downloads and categorizes all of your transactions and account balances for all your cash, credit, and even investment accounts.<\/p>\n<p>Along with being <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mint.com\/features\/security\/\">very secure<\/a>, Mint.com provides a number of other <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mint.com\/features\/\">great features<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>One-time setup (followed by automatic updating of accounts)<\/li>\n<li>Automatic expense categorization (you can tweak)<\/li>\n<li>Accessible anywhere (all you need is an Internet connection &amp; a Web browser&#8230; or iPhone)<\/li>\n<li>Beautiful, interactive charts (in the Trends tab)<\/li>\n<li>Suggestions on ways to save (better credit card offers, etc.)<\/li>\n<li>Lots more&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mint.com <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2007\/09\/18\/mint-wins-techcrunch40-50000-award\/\">won the TechCrunch 2007<\/a> and since last year, I&#8217;ve really seen lots of improvements in the site (no doubt the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2008\/06\/03\/what-winning-techcrunch-40-did-for-mintcom\/\">$17 million of venture capital funding<\/a> helps).<\/p>\n<p>Every time I spent a little time with Mint.com, I question while I&#8217;m still using Quicken (maybe for the historical data?). Intuit keeps trying to get me to pay for an upgrade to Quicken 2009, but rather than doing that, maybe I&#8217;ll just invest more time in what Mint.com offers for free.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s even a new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mint.com\/features\/iphone\/\">iPhone app for Mint.com<\/a>, which I&#8217;ve already installed and is really cool in providing a snapshot of your finances, details on recent transactions, etc.:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mint.com\/features\/iphone\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gabeanderson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/snag-1916.png\" alt=\"Mint.com iPhone app\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Intuit now offers its <a href=\"http:\/\/quicken.intuit.com\/online-banking-finances.jsp\">Quicken Online<\/a> free of charge, likely in an effort to compete with Mint.com and other free online financial management apps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve long been a Quicken user and still use it for the primary management of mine and my wife&#8217;s finances (currently on Quicken Deluxe 2007). I&#8217;ve also tried out just about every online financial management tool out there, including Wesabe and Mint.com. Since my first interaction with it during its beta period, Mint.com has consistently [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,26,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-financial","category-iphone","category-productivity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gabeanderson.com\/tech-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gabeanderson.com\/tech-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gabeanderson.com\/tech-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gabeanderson.com\/tech-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gabeanderson.com\/tech-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gabeanderson.com\/tech-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gabeanderson.com\/tech-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gabeanderson.com\/tech-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gabeanderson.com\/tech-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}