Using Countary

The first thing you will see once you have Countary running for the first time, is this:

Open Database

This is what you will do if you already have a database somewhere on your machine. Maybe you copied it from your previous computer… Once you’ve opened a database, Countary will remember it and open it automatically when you come back.

Open Demo Database

This one you will pick if you want to take a look at the Demo database. A new Demo database will be created every time you click this. Any changes will be lost once Countary is closed. You can play around with it and even use it as a basis for your own budgeting - just create a backup of it and restore the backup over a new database if you want that.

Countary will not remember that you opened the Demo database. To get back to your usual database, just close Countary and open it again.

Create New Database

This is probably the one you will pick once you’ve had a look at the Demo database and are ready to start with your own. Countary will remember the last database you’ve opened and reopen it when you come back - except if it was the Demo database.

Nothing

Maybe you just wanted to run the program to see what happens. You can always come back later.

So you did click one of the database buttons…

If you clicked one of the database, buttons you will see the initial screen - the Transactions worksheet. Here is the Transactions worksheet for the Demo database (click on the image to make it bigger):

You can change the view to something else, by selecting from the menu. Here’s the menu on a Mac:

…and here is what it looks like on Windows:

To continue using Countary, you will need to understand the concepts:

Transactions
Items
Categories
Budgets
Accounts
Databases
Statements

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