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First iteration
First iteration
First iteration
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Personal finance with the ledger in view.
Garden is a privacy-minded personal finance product built around inspectable records, deliberate review, and useful local workflows.
Current / why
A workspace, not a decorative dashboard.
Garden keeps position, transactions, planning, accounts, insight, review, import, and privacy controls within a system that can be inspected rather than merely admired.
It exists because important financial work should remain legible as it grows more complex.
Evolution
Every version uncovered the next problem.
The historical image record is incomplete, so early phases are deliberately left unillustrated.
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Second iteration
Second iteration
Second iteration
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Third iteration
Third iteration
Third iteration
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Desktop ledger
Context enters beside the ledger instead of replacing it.
Mobile direction
Daily work stays focused while review remains available.
Desktop ledger
The whole system, with context.
Financial administration needs density, but the next piece of context should arrive without throwing away the current view.
Mobile direction
Focused, not compressed.
The phone is a daily instrument for position, activity, capture, and review—not a shrunken administration panel.
Privacy / local and connected
The network boundary is named.
Local mode: no ledger data leaves the device. Manual accounts, transactions, imports, budgets, goals, review, and encrypted backup remain useful without a connected account.
Connected mode: selected data passes through Plaid and a stateless Garden relay. No decrypted server-side copy is retained. Connected mode is not described as though nothing leaves the device.
Selected decisions
Trust has to be visible.
Meaningful changes should have a readable path from input to review to result.
Import
Recognition, mapping, duplicate checks, preview, commit, and Undo form one sequence.
Ledger
Recorded facts stay distinct from projections, and inspection does not obscure the table underneath.
Mobile
Daily use favors short, designed paths over a smaller copy of desktop.
Current state
Release candidate, still being refined.
Garden is serious ongoing product work. The current desktop and mobile captures show the direction now; the early visual archive still needs verified source images.
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