On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 11:07 AM, Saša Janiška <[email protected]> wrote:
> More than one year ago I wanted to migrate from Gnucash to > (h)ledger/beancount, but simply didn’t have enough time to tailor my > ledger file. > > In the meantime I moved most of my setup to Emacs&related stuff and now > I’m determined to finally migrate… > > Beancount seems as the best option having some nice features along with > nice web interface (Fava), so I’m interesting about some tips how to > organize my beancount file which I got by running ledger2beancount.py > script on the ledger file created by gnucash2ledger.py script? > > The “Getting Started” document says: “I recommend that you begin with > just a single file.” with the following explanation in the footnote: “ > It is tempting to want to break down a large file into many smaller > ones, but especially at first, the convenience of having everything in a > single place is great.” so I wonder in a case when I’m notstarting from > the scratch? > > Stats for converted *.ledger file is: > > Unique payees: 3516 > Unique accounts: 166 > > Number of postings: 13637 (6.3 per day) > > and Time period: 10-Oct-31 to 16-Oct-05 (2166 days) > I think it depends on how well you're able to navigate a very large file. I'm still using a single large file, and I navigate it easily via org-mode (I recommend it). Org-mode allows you define and fold/unfold sections of your file, so it's easy to go to any section. I organize transactions more or less per real-world physical account. Another reason to stick with a single file is that it makes it easy to grep around your entire history and to make big changes to the account hierarchy. Although it has stabilized by now, there's still the occasional decision to refine and improve my account hierarchy. It's one of the powers and beauty of using text files for your accounting. For comparison, I have 11226 transactions, 20663 directives (including transactions), 733 accounts, 2349 unique payees, spanning about 10 years. If you decide to split it in multiple files, put all your options in the root, top-level file, because they don't get honored in the included files. Other than that it should work. HTH, -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Beancount" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/CAK21%2BhPzOAYcnDYEmjGYWGLdNsG1jUygyb2oWiFhivhg7cE_Wg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
