This is a tiny thing that has sprung from me not being very good at being nice to myself, specifically, that spending money on myself is hard, and that justifying costs for that are hard. If I allocate money in a budget towards "fun money", it will end up unused. I wrote more about this here.
sq is the tool I wrote for reminding me to spend that. I added a call to sq
to my config.fish, so the current state will be displayed to me whenever I
start up a shell.
In the future, I should probably also trigger Omnifocus Automation and the likes, but for right now, this is good.
The basic usage is simple. Set how much money you put aside for "fun stuff", and
in what interval, ie sq budget --amount 50 --interval 30, signifying $50 set
aside every 30 days. sq prorates this over the month, ie the ratio matters,
and is calculated in second increments.
Once you have your budget set, add things you want to have for yourself. This is
a strict queue, so whatever you enter will be appended. For example, sq add A new screen.. sq will then prompt you for how much that would be:
p/sq ╍ sq add A fancy thing.
What does this cost?:
250
Adding "A fancy thing." for $250 to the list.
p/sq ╍Then, you wait. Ideally, you've put sq somewhere where you look at it
regularly - I added it to my fish.config. That way I see the output of sq status every time I open a shell.
Once sq tells you that your current budget is higher than the next thing in
the purchasing queue, hit sq buy. This will mark the top item as bought, and
shuffle the next one up. Treat this like a chore, something to do mechanically.
Then, the joy lands when it arrives. Or so the theory.
It's a very standard cargo project. If you keep your random, one-off binaries in
~/.local/bin like I do, there's even a pre-made rake task: rake release.
Other than that:
cargo build --releasemv ./target/release/sq /somehere/on/$PATH
Should this be ever needed, the project is explicitly licensed under the
GPLv3. Refer to the LICENSE file for more information.