I’m building a small integration to take scheduled transactions in YNAB and display them in any normal calendar application. I’m hoping to add historical transactions one day as well to help with reconciling.
I once saw an idea on here[1] about putting a lot more historical information into a calendar, including past activities. It resonated with me and I wondered if bank transactions could be part of this activity layer. At the time I was working on a real-time integration between my bank and YNAB so I was already thinking about the space.
Earlier this year I went to the Australian F1 GP. Between qualifying on Saturday and the race on Sunday I built an integration between a live timing API and Telegram to send me position updates every minute with lap times.
This was because anywhere near a screen was packed with crowds and my mobile network couldn’t keep up using the official app.
I was job searching and wrote it up and posted to LinkedIn. My now manager saw it and was trying to hire for a role building integrations. My project was enough for him to reach out and set up a chat. Without the project we wouldn’t have connected.
https://calendarforynab.com
Any feedback is welcome!
I once saw an idea on here[1] about putting a lot more historical information into a calendar, including past activities. It resonated with me and I wondered if bank transactions could be part of this activity layer. At the time I was working on a real-time integration between my bank and YNAB so I was already thinking about the space.
1: https://julian.digital/2023/07/06/multi-layered-calendars/