Budget Board v3.6.0 - now with Customizable Dashboard Support
Hey guys,
It's been a few months since my last post here, and I wanted to share a pretty big update to Budget Board.
What is Budget Board?
For those that aren't familiar, Budget Board is a personal finance manager that allows you to set financial goals and track your monthly spending to help work towards those goals.
There are several other options in the self-hosted personal budgeting space, but I liked the goal tracking feature of Mint, and started this project after they had announced they would be shutting down.
I've finally put together a demo site for those that want to give it a try before deploying:
What is new in v3.6?
Customizable Dashboard
The big new feature of v3.6 is the ability to customize your dashboard with widgets. You can add, delete, rearrange, and configure a few different widgets to show the information that you are most interested in.
In addition to the old static widgets that were present in previous versions, I have added a new Metrics widget that allows you to display different metrics calculated from your financial data. The formula can be used to calculate things like total spending for the month, budget percentage used, goal progress, and more.
There's more info about some of the other changes in this release on the wiki here: https://budgetboard.net/docs/release-notes/release-v3.6.0
I'm hoping to continue to add more widgets in future updates: a few I have in mind right now are a Sankey diagram, a heatmap calendar, and a sparkline widget. I've gotten good feedback from the community in the past, so I am open to suggestions for any others!
Here is a link to the repo for those that are interested: