Reanna and I are in the process of officially combining our finances. I’d been a little nervous about it, but so far it’s going great. One of the tools we’re trying out is Mint.com, a free, online program for tracking money. Maya pitched us pretty hard on You Need a Budget instead of Mint, and my early impression is that YNAB is in a lot of ways simpler and more useful. We’re trying Mint first mostly because we can access it from our own computers. (How about some way to sync one account between two computers YNAB?) I’ll post a review after I know Mint better. So far, it seems adequate and is mostly pretty fun and intuitive for me, coming from Quicken.
Here are the tags we’ve agreed upon so far:
Nathen's Miraculous Escape 
February 12, 2012 at 12:00 pm
I have really mixed feelings about Mint: The way it works seems to lack closure — the notion that you got it all, that it’s complete and accurate. You can’t correct information it gets wrong all the time — you can exclude things, but not add transactions it missed.
It’s kind of a strange product, but also gets a lot right.
February 12, 2012 at 12:13 pm
Yes. And it doesn’t communicate with all the institutions I need it to–the Perkins Loan folks, for example. And how hard would it be to let us just modify the categories however works best for us? You can add subcategories but can’t move stuff around to where they make the most sense.