If you're looking to keep a closer eye on your finances this year
and you live and breath Gmail, reader Nick Espinosa has developed a clever method that may be up your alley.
Using Google Docs, Espinosa creates an expense form designed to quickly and painlessly gather expense information and save it to a Google Spreadsheet. He then emails that form to himself and bookmarks that email in Gmail using Gmail Quick Links.
You can submit the Google Doc form directly from the email as many times as you want, so every time he incurs an expense, Espinosa simply opens that email and adds the expense. It's a nice little system for quickly and easily capturing expenses using tools that you're already using every day.
Use Gmail and Google Docs to Track Your Spending [Google Docs]
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