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  • Go hands-free

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    Create a contact named “Speaking”. We are assuming that you do not already have a known contact with that name. Include the email for Speaking: speaking@emptyshoebox.com. Pin “Speaking” to your Messenger top panel. Now, you can easily find Speaking to send a new command. Now you can go Hands-free… “Hey, Siri… send a message to…

  • Lo-tech

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    We’re not adding to the already 200 apps that you have on your phone. I don’t know about you, but I have app-fatigue. Give me that kind of lo-teck. Leverage apps that everybody has on their phones and uses. Apps that are easy to find. Who doesn’t know where their messenger is? or their Email?…

  • Vehicle Expense

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    A lot of people will discover that tracking and deducting mileage offers a better deal for them vs. tracking vehicle expenses. This deduction allowance is 67 ¢ per mile for 2024. Conversely, tracking vehicle expenses may include vehicle depreciation, maintenance expense, insurance, tolls and parking, and fuel. Many people find often that it is simpler…

  • Fuzzy Matching

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    When you create an expense record, part of the record includes a reference to one of your payment accounts, one of you job records and one of your categories. Categories can be blank. But not jobs and not accounts. If you do not specify a value, we will do that for you. The important thing…

  • Speed hacks

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    … is a collection of articles about how to set-up and how to use the EmptyShoebox application suite to deliver real value. Which is to say, these articles are mostly about how you use the apps vs. how the apps work. Here, find out about including a “speaking” contact in your list of Contacts, pinning,…

  • Bookkeeping 101

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    Yes, you can… All bookkeeping is, really, is making lists. You make two lists. One list is the list of money that you have earned. The other is the list of money that you have spent. At the end of the year, you add up all the values of each list to get a total,…

  • Two Mileage Types

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    Let’s start with this: there are two basic types of mileage entries. One is what we call a stand-alone record, where you include a starting location for the request, and an ending location. The mileage record that you see is the computed driving distance between the two locations, start and end. The other that happens…

  • Mileage Anytime

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    You can enter mileage as it occurs, and a lot of our users do. Others have been really, really happy to do all their mileage at a sitting, or multiple sittings, as the case may be, entering all of their historical mileage records sometime later on… which is to say maybe long after they happened.…