📅 2025-01-24 — Session: Financial Management Automation and Grocery Data Processing

🕒 21:30–23:00
🏷️ Labels: Financial Management, Automation, Grocery, OCR, Inventory
📂 Project: Business
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM

Session Goal

The session focused on automating financial management processes and processing grocery data for better inventory and expense management.

Key Activities

  • Metadata Structuring for Obsidian Vault: Organized content screening and knowledge archiving.
  • OCR Extraction and CSV Creation: Extracted grocery bill data using OCR and created CSV files for detailed expenses tracking.
  • Inventory Management: Completed a product table with categories and types to facilitate inventory management.
  • Financial Management Planning: Developed a comprehensive plan for automating financial management, including a dashboard and automated systems for expense tracking.
  • Data Manipulation in Pandas: Ensured DataFrame columns with NaN filling and handled pd.NA to avoid TypeErrors.
  • Monthly Report Generation: Generated monthly financial reports with HTML export for visualization.

Achievements

  • Successfully structured metadata for knowledge archiving.
  • Generated detailed grocery expense reports and inventory tables.
  • Outlined a comprehensive financial management automation plan.
  • Developed Python code for data manipulation and report generation.

Pending Tasks

  • Implement the financial dashboard and automation tools as per the plan.