anyone make the switch from Quicken/MSMoney to KMyMoney?

[Feathers McGraw]

When downloading the file from the bank, my bank lets you choose dates for the beginning and end of the statement, or select everything since the last download date. Does quicken automatically connect to the bank itself and download the file?

[Tom_ZeCat]

When downloading the file from the bank, my bank lets you choose dates for the beginning and end of the statement, or select everything since the last download date. Does quicken automatically connect to the bank itself and download the file?

With Quicken you have the choice of first downloading the web connect file and then importing it (the old way) or of having Quicken interface directly with the bank's web page and doing that for you (the new way). I've just stuck to using the former. However, I don't select any dates. It always knows what transactions are new and just takes those ones. So my concern is that I may do the download with Quicken and the flag gets cleared on the bank's site that they've been downloaded. Then when I go to do it in KMM, they're already flagged as downloaded and therefore KMM will miss those transactions.

[claydoh]

Out of interest, what's involved in maintaining a PPA?

Tried KMM today, works fine with NatWest

In my case, not a huge amount. When KMM has a new release I have to make sure the packaging will build on Ubuntu successfully, and hopefully for more than one version. As they don't release things willy nilly, this usually means I have to remember what it was I did last time to get it to work, or copy what Debian did to get it to compile LOL.

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[Buddlespit]

In my case, not a huge amount. When KMM has a new release I have to make sure the packaging will build on Ubuntu successfully, and hopefully for more than one version. As they don't release things willy nilly, this usually means I have to remember what it was I did last time to get it to work, or copy what Debian did to get it to compile LOL.

I use cheatsheets. If I find that I need to build something over and over, I'll set my commands into a text file , name it (ie- android kernel.txt), and save it in ~/Documents/cheatsheets. Then all I have to do is copy and paste. It makes it so much easier to print out if I have to re-install Archlinux instead of having to try to read three or four archwiki pages.

[Tom_ZeCat]

I use cheatsheets. If I find that I need to build something over and over, I'll set my commands into a text file , name it (ie- android kernel.txt), and save it in ~/Documents/cheatsheets. Then all I have to do is copy and paste. It makes it so much easier to print out if I have to re-install Archlinux instead of having to try to read three or four archwiki pages.

For saving command line code that I'll likely need in the future, I use a nifty little tool named CherryTree. You may be familiar with the Windows-based program, TreePad. CherryTree is the Linux equivalent (though Treepad does have a Linux version in Treepad Lite). Both apps let you create a tree structure at the left and then store stuff in its branches, or nodes, which in turn is displayed on the right.

If you anyone does decide to give CherryTree a try, I highly recommend installing it via the PPA and the terminal commands. The version in the repository is dated. I ran across some problems with clicking on a link in a tree and then the web pages coming up very slowly. It was something about its interface with browsers not being up to date. The latest version (0.32.0) doesn't have that problem.

Btw, Treepad does run very well in WINE.

[bweinel]

No, it doesn't change anything at my bank when I do an ofx download. It's just a straight download from the beginning date (which you specify) to the end date (which you also specify.) Then you import the created *.ofx file into the KMM ledger. KMM is smart enough to look at your local ledger and tell if you downloaded any duplicates and not re-import them into the ledger for a second time.

cheers,
bill

[Tom_ZeCat]

No, it doesn't change anything at my bank when I do an ofx download. It's just a straight download from the beginning date (which you specify) to the end date (which you also specify.) Then you import the created *.ofx file into the KMM ledger. KMM is smart enough to look at your local ledger and tell if you downloaded any duplicates and not re-import them into the ledger for a second time.

cheers,
bill

Thanks, man. This will be a big step forward if I can liberate myself from using Windows for anything financial. What I think I'll try is I'll set it up so that there are only 2 transactions that need to be downloaded in Quicken and in KMM and test it like that. That way if anything goes wrong, it's only two transactions that could easily be typed in.

[richb]

That is an awkward process as compared to Quicken's direct connect.

[claydoh]

That is an awkward process as compared to Quicken's direct connect.

Not really, especially if you can set the browser to automatically open the ofx file in KMM. Plus it is cheaper than paying the bank fees associated with being able to use it. I was using KMM to pull the data directly from the bank, but decided the monthly Quicken fees were too much for what I was getting.

The only reason I don't still use KMM is simply because I don't use a bank anymore.

[richb]

Admittedly I have not tried it in KMM but I have done it in Quicken. Perhaps it is easier in KMM. I do like the direct download, and my bank charges $3.00 per month. I would have to do the process for two accounts as my brokerage account is at a different institution, so it means to separate logins and two separate downloads, whereas direct connect handles both with one click in Quicken. That is obviously is more time and more fiddling.

[perspectoff]

Screenplays and DVDs

There's no version of Final Draft for Linux. It's a screenwriting / stage writing word processor that is the industry standard. The closest Linux equivalent, CeltX, is totally inferior, especially for stage plays.

From (K)Ubuntuguide -- Scripts and Screenplays ( http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Kubuntu_...nd_Screenplays ):

Trelby ( http://www.trelby.org/ ) is an open source alternative to Final Draft. A .deb package can be downloaded from the website and installed directly.

Using a MediaWiki extension, a screenplay can be written in MediaWiki, allowing conversion to other formats. ( http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Mediawik...e_a_screenplay )

Then there's ConvertXtoDVD, which only has a Windows version. This app gives me excellent control over how subtitles appear in the DVDs that I burn, much more so than the Linux equivalent, DeVeDe. DeVeDe is pretty good and may catch up at some point. I hope so.

I add subtitles using mencoder, which is very powerful. cf. (K)Ubuntuguide at http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Video_Co...itles_to_video

DeVeDe is a front-end, primarily, for authoring DVDs and is only one of many (see http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Kubuntu_...oring_programs ). I don't really like it or use it.

Besides, who is using DVDs any more? I spent a month or two converting my DVDs to files (using mencoder) and now carry all my movies on a single portable USB hard drive (about $60 - $70 for 1 -2 Tb). My DVD players (about $30 new these days, or $60 with Netflix and WiFi ) all play files from my USB hard drive, so DVDs aren't really necessary for even them, any longer.

If you think you need DVDs to distribute files inexpensively to clients or something, that is fine, but you can always put video files on the DVD disk instead of making VOB format DVDs.

Having said that, I do give lectures and have distributed DVDs in the past with my lectures in both .vob format DVDs (in VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS folders) and video files (.mkv or .avi or .mp4 files in their own folder) on the same DVD!

[Tom_ZeCat]

From (K)Ubuntuguide -- Scripts and Screenplays ( http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Kubuntu_...nd_Screenplays ):

Trelby ( http://www.trelby.org/ ) is an open source alternative to Final Draft. A .deb package can be downloaded from the website and installed directly.

Using a MediaWiki extension, a screenplay can be written in MediaWiki, allowing conversion to other formats. ( http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Mediawik...e_a_screenplay )



I add subtitles using mencoder, which is very powerful. cf. (K)Ubuntuguide at http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Video_Co...itles_to_video

DeVeDe is a front-end, primarily, for authoring DVDs and is only one of many (see http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Kubuntu_...oring_programs ). I don't really like it or use it.

Besides, who is using DVDs any more? I spent a month or two converting my DVDs to files (using mencoder) and now carry all my movies on a single portable USB hard drive (about $60 - $70 for 1 -2 Tb). My DVD players (about $30 new these days, or $60 with Netflix and WiFi ) all play files from my USB hard drive, so DVDs aren't really necessary for even them, any longer.

If you think you need DVDs to distribute files inexpensively to clients or something, that is fine, but you can always put video files on the DVD disk instead of making VOB format DVDs.

Having said that, I do give lectures and have distributed DVDs in the past with my lectures in both .vob format DVDs (in VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS folders) and video files (.mkv or .avi or .mp4 files in their own folder) on the same DVD!

Thanks for your detailed reply. I've saved it into my CherryTree file on Linux info. I've tried Trelby. Like CeltX it just isn't up there with Final Draft yet. For screenwriting both programs are all right, but both are severely lacking for stage play writing. For stage plays you need to use either the standard Dramatist Guild format or the Samuel French one. Neither program can do that well. I also tried a LibreOffice Writer plug-in, which I simply could not get to work. So, for not it's Final Draft under VirtualBox.

I still burn DVDs all the time. The reason is I watch a lot of foreign films, usually French ones. I need to be able to use subtitles. You can buy a French film from Amazon.fr or some other place and then rip it to an AVI (to get rid of the region BS) and then download subtitles and burn the new project to a DVD. I have investigated a device that will play an ISO file. I'll use that when the time comes, but for now it's burning lots of DVDs. I'm looking forward to trying the subtitle software that you recommend. ConvertXtoDVD beats the pants off DeVeDe for subtitles. It allows you to choose the size, the font, and the color. You can also choose to use an opaque box behind the subtitles if you want to. This is important if you've somehow ended up with a movie with hard-coded subtitles in another language. With the opaque box, the English subtitles show up without being jumbled together with the other ones. Also, really great is the ability to use a dark outline around the subtitles. I use that often. It makes them show up way better than if you just put them in there.

I'll check out that software that you recommended. Thanks for the tips.