Genuinely useful. The detail about the approach itself is the bit I'll actually use — most posts on this stay surface-level. Does it hold up when things get busy and you can't be precise about it?
Adding a data point: I've run this for two years and it's held up through a job change and a move, which is the real test. The trick was making it small enough that it never felt optional. How small did you start?
Funny, I tried the exact opposite of this last year and it cost me. What you're describing would've saved me real frustration and a few hundred bucks. What made you go this route instead of the default everyone reaches for?
Genuinely useful. The detail about the approach itself is the bit I'll actually use — most posts on this stay surface-level. Does it hold up when things get busy and you can't be precise about it?
Adding a data point: I've run this for two years and it's held up through a job change and a move, which is the real test. The trick was making it small enough that it never felt optional. How small did you start?
This, and the part that gets missed is it only works if you actually track it. Eyeballing it never once worked for me.
Funny, I tried the exact opposite of this last year and it cost me. What you're describing would've saved me real frustration and a few hundred bucks. What made you go this route instead of the default everyone reaches for?