How I Plan my Monthly Budget with Numbers
I use a minimalistic spreadsheet setup to track my monthly budget and spending
I’m a data scientist. That being said, I am not a huge fan of spreadsheets. Despite its impressive data handling and manipulation powers, Excel is not a tool I like to use unless I have no choice.
My sentiments toward spreadsheets changed when I started using the MacOS app Numbers. It feels almost inappropriate to call Numbers documents spreadsheets.
Numbers, without oppressive row and column numbers framing the page and infinite grids eating up space, is a great way to stay organised without whacking out an Excel document. It allows you to collage together text, tables of any dimensions, images and charts. Furthermore, it is incredibly snappy and lightweight compared to its Microsoft counterpart.
With very little effort, I was able to combine two of the basic budget templates from Numbers into the spreadsheet pictured above.
In this article, I will show you:
- A brief tour of my spreadsheet
- How to build functionality into your own Numbers spreadsheet
