I use monarch, I don't think it is very good as an 'investment tracker' (what wealthfolio claims to be). It's fantastic as a more general personal finance/budget tracker.
For example - I have to reclassify loads of transactions for it to track close to correctly. Say treasuries - purchase at a discount, then at maturity redeem for full amount. You can enter them as buy/sell, but then it wont properly report to cashflow, or give you a good classification as to what type of income that was.
Similar with stocks and short term/long term. It means that even though all the info is there it's not as useful as I'd like for showing total income broken out as types of income to help with tax planning etc.
I still use it so the annoyances are not too extreme, but if there were a tool that did a better job of the investment side I'd switch.
Looking at the wealthfolio features I'm not sure it handles any of that any better though, but it does seem to break out dividend/interest income.
I use monarch and I've been happy enough with it. Would probably consider self-hosting with actual in the future, but I wanted an easy on-ramp for myself to actually get in the habit of budgeting.
AirDrop works very infrequently for me. I will open AirDrop and not see someone who's sitting right next to me, or then I'll send them the file and it'll get stuck on "waiting" and they'll never get the notification, or it'll send some of the files then seem to get stuck partway through.
This is all with modern day iPhones, like iPhone 15 and above, and just using it in what should be the happy path. I'm actually really surprised every time I hear people say it's so good, because I almost always have to end up just imessaging a picture instead and finding that it works much better.
I've had the same issue as a more recent iOS convert.
I remembering looking into it and I think there's actually two forms of airdrop - one is local only (I think it negotiates over Bluetooth then does actual transfer over a direct WiFi connection). The other is a fallback or something and goes over cellular.
And for some reason it seems to always want to fall back to cellular when you have one bar of shit 3G in the middle of nowhere and are trying to send your friend 2 feet away a shitload of photos from your trip.
Hi folks. Congrats on this launch. As someone who's used Quickbooks for years, there's definitely an opportunity to build something that's a better experience. We're hearing about other new platforms like Rillet emerge in the market too. How do you folks think about their approach vs. yours?
hey, thank you - for sure! Rillet looks interesting, they appear to focus on SaaS vertical for mid-market companies (more like targeting Netsuite's customer segments). We on the other hand focus on a simpler setup where small business owners and startup founders manage most of their business finances themselves.
I recently visited the Henry Ford Musuem in Dearborn. Several presidential limos were there:
"The Henry Ford’s Presidential Vehicles exhibit traces the changing balance between a president’s need to be seen, and need to be safe. Included in this exhibit are the horse-drawn carriage used by Theodore Roosevelt and presidential parade cars that transported Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush. The most prominent vehicle is the 1961 Lincoln Continental Presidential Limousine that John F. Kennedy was riding in when assassinated on November 22, 1963. The vehicle was rebuilt and used regularly by Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard Nixon."
This is misleading. Here's the note from their official Q2 2024 shareholder letter:
"I also want to recognize the progress Cruise has made over the last several months. Our vision to transform mobility using autonomous technology is unchanged, and every mile traveled, and every simulation, brings us closer because Cruise is an AI-first company.
As you know, Cruise has returned to the road in Houston, Phoenix and Dallas and we recently made several significant leadership appointments, including hiring Marc Whitten as CEO. Marc has decades of experience on the frontlines of technology transformations.
The Cruise team will also simplify their path to scale by focusing their next autonomous vehicle on the next-generation Chevrolet Bolt, instead of the Origin. This addresses the regulatory uncertainty we faced with the Origin because of its unique design. In addition, per-unit costs will be much lower, which will help Cruise optimize its resources."
At least according to the page you linked, the Pen has a caveat of “Sold Separately” so I’m inclined to think the article is correct or the Microsoft page needs better copy?
Perhaps they mean “also available separately”.
For example go to the Tech Specs tab and the pen has footnote 3: “Sold separately”
Yeah the site feels like an e-shop from a decade ago. Every section scrolls in a different direction, with multiple different ways of representing the same information.
I disagree on the Magic Keyboard being too expensive. Many of the cheaper keyboards you can get for the iPad are too heavy, have keys that are too sticky, or both. The new Magic Keyboard is very light, very well constructed and has a keyboard that resembles typing on a Mac, which is no small feat IMO.
The Surface Pro flex keyboard weighs 340 g including pen. The Magic Keyboard for iPad 13 M4 weights over 670 g. That's quite heavy. Nearly double without added weight from the Pencil Pro.
Congrats on the launch. I recently was trying out Microsoft Edge's built-in Workspaces feature which allows multiplayer collaboration. What would you say are the key differences?
The main difference is that Muddy automatically creates and updates those shared tabs for you based on what's being added to the project timeline (multiplayer feed of apps/websites).
We used some similar tools like Workona in the past but without constant maintenance, links would get stale and we'd abandon it. Wanted something that did that for us automatically.
(Also we support: website annotations, team presence, and letting you rewind a project's timeline back to any point in time)
https://www.monarch.com/
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