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Automated and AI assisted transaction-statement formatting and categorising workflow.

I'm wanting to build a mega data import workflow for budgeting and spending analysis.


Ideally it would work like this:


  1. I download my transaction history for the past 6 months from each bank account I own in a CSV format.
  2. Those files are downloaded into an Automator 'folder action' which then imports that data into a new sheet of an existing Numbers file.
  3. That data is then sent to ChatGPT with prompts to perform several functions in a loop.

a. Rearrange the columns into a standard format. (ie. Date, Amount, Description)

b. Categorise each transaction by type: (Income, Expense, Bill, Debt, Transfer) and add those categories to a new column.

i. For transfers - ensure that a withdrawal from account A matches a depost into account B,

ii. otherwise list it as an expense)

c. Further catagorise each transaction by name. (ie. Rent, Groceries, Take-away, etc, etc) and add those names to a new column.

4.Copy the analysed data back to Numbers.


Would this even be possible to program/script?

I know that excel can already do this using Power Query and other tools, but I'm trying to stick with-in the apple ecosystem as much as possible.

Posted on Aug 14, 2024 5:37 AM

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Automated and AI assisted transaction-statement formatting and categorising workflow.

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