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Everyday records
Add and manage accounts
Set up an account and understand Today, Including future, and archived accounts.
Import and review transaction files
Preview QIF or CSV files, resolve mappings and matches, then import the reviewed activity.
Organize income and expense categories
Use shared system categories or household custom categories to organize transactions and budgets.
Record and review ledger transactions
Enter deposits and withdrawals, review transaction status, and find missing rows.
Getting started
Get started with Novice Money
Start with one account, record activity, and see how upcoming payments affect your plan.
Household and settings
Set up and troubleshoot email reminders
Choose reminder content and delivery preferences, including why an empty daily summary is not sent.
Share finances with a household
Understand Owner, Editor, and Viewer roles, invitations, and household switching.
Understand and manage AI connections
Review household consent, read and change permissions, and how to revoke an AI connection.
Understand financial backups and restores
Review saved household snapshots, their contents and limits, and the effects of restoring.
Planning ahead
Build and review a Debt Snowball plan
Compare payoff approaches using debt balances, interest rates, and payment assumptions.
Choose a payment frequency
Understand every two weeks, twice a month, short months, and series endings.
Create and review monthly budgets
Allocate monthly spending by account and category, then compare spending and commitments.
Manage scheduled bills and income
Create a repeating schedule and distinguish entering an occurrence from paying a bill.
Understand Cash Flow
Read daily projected balances and inspect the transactions and schedules behind them.
Why the dashed budget line may stay flat
See how spending consumes a reserve without being deducted twice from After budgets.
Reviewing finances
Choose and read a financial report
Select a report, account, and period, and distinguish recorded spending from projections.