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Episode: 3738
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Title: HPR3738: Intro to KMyMoney
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr3738/hpr3738.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-25 04:48:38
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This is Hacker Public Radio Episode 3738 for Wednesday the 30th of November 2022.
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Today's show is entitled, Brief Intro on KDE.
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It is the first show by Newhost Kinesi and is about three minutes long.
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It carries a clean flag.
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The summary is Brief Intro on KDE.
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I thought I would dip my toes into recording for Hacker Public Radio by recording a short
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episode on an app I have found useful, K My Money.
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It technically comes with KDE, but I have used it on other Linux desktop environments
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plus on the Windows.
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I found the episode already discussing it, so I thought it would be useful to add to
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the catalog.
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So first what is this application?
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From the website, they say, K My Money is a cross-platform personal finance manager built
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on KDE Frameworks Technologies for your desktop and notebook environment.
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It enables users to keep careful track of their personal finances by providing a broad
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array of financial features and tools.
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The principle goals of the application are ease of use.
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K My Money strives to be the easiest open source personal finance manager to use, especially
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for the non-technical user.
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Familiarity.
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K My Money already provides the most important features found in commercial available
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personal finance managers, and we are constantly planning, testing and releasing new features
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to fit every task you'll ever encounter.
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Accuracy.
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Using time tests to double entry accounting principles, K My Money can help ensure that
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your finances are recorded as they should.
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So how do I use this?
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I use this in two ways.
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One, I use this to balance my checkbook.
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This is access to the bank and many bills electronic.
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I found it easier to reconcile differences through an application rather than by paper.
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And two, it helps me keep track of the regular bills.
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So related to the bills, I wanted to briefly talk about the scheduled transactions, which
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I find most helpful.
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So from the website, again, the schedule view, you can create and manage scheduled transactions
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in the schedule view.
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Schedules are a very useful and time saving feature, creating a scheduled transaction
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for a regularly recurring event like your rent or your bills will help you not forget
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to pay them on time.
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Schedules can even be configured to automatically enter a transaction into the ledger for you
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if you want.
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Schedule creating or editing transactions.
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Schedule transactions can be bills, deposits, or transfers.
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When a schedule transaction is created or edited, the transaction information is displayed
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in a dialogue where you can enter or edit the transaction details.
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So some examples of how I use a schedule transaction.
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One, reminders on the bills that occur monthly.
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These bills are the most typical, for instance, the monthly electric bill that occurs around
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a typical day of the month.
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Two, there is at least one bill that occurs quarterly and another that occurs annually
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for a weekly paycheck that I have as a reminder to enter.
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So in summary, both the balancing of the checkbook and using the schedule transactions
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has helped reduce, mean being late on a bill, especially when I miss that last submit
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on when there are several steps to actually pay a bill.
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I hope at least some of you have found this episode useful.
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Thanks.
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You have been listening to Hacker Public Radio at HackerPublicRadio.org.
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Today's show was contributed by a HBR listener like yourself.
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If you ever thought of recording podcasts, click on our contribute link to find out how easy
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it really is.
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Hosting for HBR has been kindly provided by an onsthost.com, the internet archive, and
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our syncs.net.
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On this advice status, today's show is released under Creative Commons, Attribution 4.0 International
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License.
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