I tend to move a % of my salary into various saving accounts/help to buy ISA every month by Standing Order.
With what’s left I generally just spend what I want and anything then left over I also move to savings.
I’m sensible with my day to day spending so I often don’t keep track of it besides memory. Although Monzo is now providing a great insight to look back on.
I’m quite fortunate that I don’t have any big bills to pay yet as I still live with my parents so I’m very pleased with how my saving is going 
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I’d recommend getting an emergency fund up and running if you don’t already. Start with £1000 but some people prefer 3-6 month wages so you are covered should you find yourself out of work suddenly. Becomes more useful once you have your own place but it also helped me out when I needed an emergency root canal once.
I love this sort of thing — I will use @Chapuys and @bee’s posts as inspiration for my future tweaks.
Currently, I have salary into Monzo, then a large chunk going into a joint account with my fiancée for rent/bills/groceries/meals out — as we’ve done for a few years. This was increased recently to cover an amount going to two separate ISAs with this bank. CHIP also takes money every so often for higher interest.
After I transfer this at the beginning of the month, I then pay off bills, put money into savings, 2-3 investing platforms I’ve been dabbling with, and holiday pot.
My budgeting is managed with Google Sheets listing everything OUT (regular bills and everything else itemised), everything IN, leaving a small buffer each month to carry over.
It’s not perfect, but automated where I can.
I haven’t gotten around to using YNAB or others because I feel better listing all my spending at this point and don’t categorise things the way this and other apps do — but I’m willing to have my mind changed on this.
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I use a spreadsheet. I also have long term plans so I have budgets drawn up until January 2019. I do this as it’s important to plan the expenditure but I also plan ahead on what overtime I’ll do.
I’ve been using the numbers app through apple and I love it! I know to the penny what is happening on my accounts.