[/caption]Recently I've started using a financial planning application called Mint. It's a bit scary at first, as it requires you to provide passwords and login information for your financial institutions and investments, but so far I haven't had any problems, nor has anyone else that I know who is using it. It's always a concern when using the internet, but you can't let it run your life, you know? Just be cautious. Mint is created by the makers of Quicken (Intuit, Inc), so I was pretty sure I could trust it.
Being a creative with almost no capacity for organization or administration, keeping track of my finances was always a struggle for me. Mint makes it so much easier to see where my money is going and how I can utilize it more efficiently in my savings and investments. I would recommend this application to anyone... but particularly to my artist peers, who may struggle with the same organizational deficiencies as me! You can get it for your smartphone too, which is pretty handy.
