I don’t know when they fixed it, but I can once again download all my Yodlee transactions in one fell swoop.  I had written a few months ago that Yodlee has ceased that functionality.  Of course what I found even more irking at the time was that they denied that there was any problem.

As a result over the last few months, I didn’t track my spending.   I didn’t know exactly how much I was spending on food.  I didn’t know how much gas I was using, or how much my rounds of golf were costing me.   I wasn’t in the dark, but I felt like I was in the shade.   Did I end up spending more?  Not at all.    Tracking my spending is useful, but ultimately I do it because for some warped reason I actually enjoy it.   At this point my budget is more unconscious habit than anything else.  I have a vague sense pretty much at all times about how much I should be spending.  You don’t need to breakdown every cent to do that properly.  Most of the time just knowing what your balances are is more than enough.

I still have one rather big gripe about Yodlee.   For whatever reason, I can’t seem to access Yodlee on my Mac these days.   Both FireFox and Safari on my mac endlessly try to reload the home page.   The page never gets loaded.  It’s very odd, but works fine on my PC at work and laptop.