Obsidian Budget Tracker

This is an early release for my budget tracker using Dataview in Obsidian.

I tried documenting it below, but if you want to know more, HMU on the Obsidian Discord (nickname is koleir there).

Disclaimer

This budget tracker only works for one (1) account, although you could change it a bit to be able to handle multiple ones. It does not handle retrieving transactions from your bank account nor producing compatible CSV data. I am using external (custom) tools to do this.

Setup

First, you need to create 4 CSV files:

• finance-posted.csv holds transactions that your bank is aware of. Summing these up should lead you to see the same balance that you have on your account.
• finance-pending.csv is used to note transactions that you made but are not yet posted on your bank accouunt.
• finance-scheduled.csv allows you to list future transactions that you know are going to occur.
• finance-categories.csv stores information about your transaction categories.

I put these in a Stores folder at the root of my vault, you need to adapt the source code if you want to change these paths.

Then I have a Budget.md note with the following content:

---
cssclasses:
  - wide-page
---

# Budget

~~~dataviewjs
await dv.view("Vault/Views/Budget", {container: this.container})
~~~

Each CSV file has one line describing the headers.

Posted transactions

"id","date","payee","category","amount","note","label"

• id: Unique transaction ID (use the one from your bank)
• date: Transaction date in YYYY-MM-DD format
• payee: Payee name
• category: Category name (must match a category in finances-categories.csv)
• amount: Amount in Cents
• note: A custom note about this transaction
• label: Transaction label from your bank

Pending and scheduled

date,payee,category,amount,note

• date: Transaction date in YYYY-MM-DD format
• payee: Payee name
• category: Category name (must match a category in finances-categories.csv)
• amount: Amount in Cents
• note: A custom note about this transaction

Categories

name,color

• name: Category name
• color: Category color