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    <title>Introduction</title>
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OpenMoneyBox is an application designed to manage small personal money budgets in the easiest way.
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<para>The idea was born when my informatic system was made by the awesome <ulink url="http://www.amiga.com/about/history/index.php?t=past&amp;p=a500">AMIGA
500</ulink>.
It managed through a basic interface and a dropdown menu a file containing three small arrays:

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Funds
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Credits
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Debts
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At the end of each month it generated a text document where all management operations were stored.</para>
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The basic idea is still substantially the same.</para>

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<emphasis role="strong">Definitions</emphasis>
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<emphasis>Fund</emphasis>: every kind of saving e.g. cash, a bank account, where you add your income and such;
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<emphasis>Credit</emphasis>: money other people owe you;
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<emphasis>Debt</emphasis>: money you owe to somebody else.
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<note>The screenshots for this manual have been created using a Z00VD, a FRD-L09 and a FP3 smartphones.</note>
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