That's pretty cool, do they use the envelope metho...
# budgetingp
powerful-butcher-25898
05/01/2025, 4:13 PMThat's pretty cool, do they use the envelope method?
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straight-nightfall-20143
05/02/2025, 6:23 PMIt can definitely be used with envelope method, but it doesn't force you into anything, like YNAB might (from what I've gathered, but not a YNAB user)
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mysterious-tomato-10057
05/02/2025, 6:24 PMright ynab forces you into a specific mindset, monarch is more open ended instead of being opinionated
mysterious-tomato-10057
05/02/2025, 6:25 PMside point, our frum finance tooling, which will only be connecting to ynab as of now, will have be getting automated categorization if YNAB doesn't put it out
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straight-nightfall-20143
05/02/2025, 6:26 PM@mysterious-tomato-10057 you could borrow code from the Monarch method which uses a chrome extension to sync with amazon account, from what I gathered
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mysterious-tomato-10057
05/02/2025, 6:27 PMi like it! i'm hoping we can auth directly with amazon but yeah that is a nice backup plan