GnuCash?

For me Gnucash lacks the requisite connections and ties to online banking that I've grown accustomed to thus for Gnucash is not an option.

What is it you are trying to accomplish by looking into Gnucash? For example, are you looking at moving to Linux and worry about what you'll do about Quicken? Are you concerned about online banking and how Gnucash may or may not work with your current bank? If so you might try one of the various virtual machine emulators out there and just continue to run Quicken in one of those.

GnuCash is very unlike Quicken - you may want to look at KMyMoney instead, which is similar. Indeed if KMyMoney had a more powerful calendar view it would be enough for me to move over.

The calendar view I'm looking for would have the Quicken-alike account balance mini-graphs and the ability to show historic transactions instead of just the scheduled ones. If KMyMoney had that, it would do me fine.

Cheers, Ian

I use 'KBH Investor Accounting' for investment portfolios...

The program is professional in nature in that it equally weights all functions of the program, the program is professional in nature in that it is a record of inputs, and the program is professional in nature in that portfolio result is fundamental to the endeavor.

Also the program will track the intermediate value of a short position including covered-call-writes....

In all the program has a Portfolio book, a Register book, a Realized book with transaction matching, a Mark-to-Market book of year-to-date gain/loss, and a Transaction input book.

Finally, the program will process a download file if someone provides the file. For instance a full-service broker for a high-net-worth-individual might provide download files...

Here is a user link to 'KBH Investor Accounting':