Hi TAKA, happy Lunar New Year! 🎆 Happy one anniversary of joining Libernesia to you as well! 👏
I appreciate people, including you, building tools. Not all of them will get praise or become popular instantly, but the building is an experience worth gaining, which involves putting skills into practice. It's also worth learning from other tools and projects. SheetFi made me recall that, when I became an adult and got to university, I needed to manage money even more. I didn't receive much education in finance and thus didn't have much confidence in money matters of adulthood. But who knows? At that time, I realized that turning to adulthood and gaining independence from school and family, real lifelong learning starts. I started small by recording every one of my spending or earnings of money (there are often small amounts, but ignoble details often make a big impact) - that's an action more people could think of when managing money, and later turned to making an Excel spreadsheet to make a dashboard with further calculations on my balances, and even applied an updatable visualization. I felt the joy of making tools, especially when driven by strong initiatives, such as intense personal use, though there are better alternatives out there.
Designing tools that are actually useful is not easy. Outputting something from the brain is more difficult than absorbing, not to say putting your life in paper, evaluating it, and forging it differently. I think you would be interested in Bogdan's recent project, Forjd. He designed a system starting two years ago that helped him gain consistency and live a better life. I really think he's astonishingly strong and efficient, but he's humble. He published the tool he uses in his everyday life about two months ago. Forjd's website is https://forjd.me, and it has a new Reddit community these days, which you can access by a link from the website. You can see Bogdan there, having posted his pieces of sharing that may resonate and help many of you! You may also want to check out his new personal website: https://bogdanionescu.net
