How I Do My Own Bookkeeping Without QuickBooks
How I do my own bookkeeping without QuickBooks: an Airtable base shaped like the Schedule C, a Worker that logs sales and spending, and 5 minutes a week.
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How I do my own bookkeeping without QuickBooks: an Airtable base shaped like the Schedule C, a Worker that logs sales and spending, and 5 minutes a week.
My Apple Watch posts 14 numbers a day into the Airtable row where I log food and mood, and a Sunday report reads the week. The Apple Health to Airtable build.
Seventy-nine reformer classes and I couldn’t say what changed, so I built an Airtable tracker with 24 moves on a ladder. The base, dashboard, and generator.
My AI job search runs weekly on its own: Claude reads my resume, searches Indeed, and only reports jobs worth seeing. Setup steps plus a free prompt generator.
My head holds a blog post, an app bug and a dog reminder in the same five minutes. I built a tool that sorts the ramble, and a generator so you can too.
I have ADHD, a billion ideas a day, and zero guilt about using AI to write blog posts. Where the line between AI slop and AI help sits, from my desk.
My Claude Code setup is VS Code, one extension, and a folder. What I use, how I organize it, and a generator that writes your first CLAUDE.md.
I cancelled $310 a month in software subscriptions and built my own replacements. My bill didn’t go down. The real math, and what I kept paying for.
I pulled every invoice and added up what my software stack costs: $583.13 a month. The blog half came out bigger than I expected, and hosting isn’t why.
I customize Claude Code skills instead of running them as I found them. The rule I use, two worked examples, and a generator that builds one around you.