# Personal Finance package?

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/personal-finance-package/12597
**Category:** Finance and Economics
**Tags:** package, proposal
**Created:** [July 23, 2018, 8:01am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/personal-finance-package/12597 "2018-07-23T08:01:28Z")
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### Author: ![yakir12](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/yakir12/32/297_2.png) [@yakir12](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/yakir12)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2018, 9:53am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/personal-finance-package/12597/8 "2018-07-23T09:53:03Z")

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You know what @piever, falling short on my hopes for a more global solution with linking bank comments to businesses to categories, an awesome solution for now would be:

Having a table with unique (cleaned up) bank comments and associated categories. The table will have two columns, one column for the comments, and one for the categories. The possible values a category can have are finite and come from a list of predefined categories. The initial value of each row in the category column can be `missing` or a `Uncategorized` category (whichever). For instance:

```julia
+---------------------------------------+------------------------+
|Comment |Category |
+=======================================+========================+
|2018-06-10 ICA SUPERMARKET SODER, MALMO|Expense:Food:Groceires |
+---------------------------------------+------------------------+
|2018-06-05 SKANETRAFIKEN, MALMO C |Expense:Transport:Public|
+---------------------------------------+------------------------+

```

That would be awesome, cause then I can just scroll down the table and choose a fitting category for each bank comment. This table will then be used to create a key to categorize future expenses.

A whole separate discussion might be how to best use this data (say a thousand `comment => category` pairs) to best automatically categorize never-before-encountered expenses (key words, small variations of the same comment, some other higher order associations, etc).

I’ll open a feature request as well.

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