Sure, you could abuse it that way. Beancount is a kind of "calculator with buckets," really, and it doesn't really think anything special of its currencies, so nothing prevents you from counting "calories" or otherwise have multiple accounts for them or other things. It's just not going to do anything special for you beyond a spreadsheet, unless you need snapshots (balance sheet) or calculations of differences between their contents (income statement), broken down by account, or linkage between the transactions. You'd have to get creative with it to do that.
On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 4:35 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > The idea is initially inspired by the idea that Double Entry bookkeeping > uses the perspective of the person. > I realize a body is more complex, and certainly not a zero sum game, but > so are the financial markets. They are treated as black boxes with trends > based on transactions etc. > I thought it might be an idea to treat the body as a black box with > calorie in/out transactions similar to the hackers diet approach > https://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/ > > So coming back to the question - if i was to go about it, do you have > suggestions about how i could i approach it. > Could i also convert/link financial transactions to calories? > > > On Tuesday, February 28, 2017 at 10:18:11 AM UTC+1, Martin Blais wrote: >> >> You could but I don't see the point. Your body is more complex than this >> and doesn't conserve nutrients in a straightforward way. Plus you'd have >> only a small and fixed amount of categories anyway. You'd be better off >> using a spreadsheet and processing it with custom scripts using r or >> pandas. Double entry bookkeeping won't help you for this. >> >> >> On Feb 28, 2017 3:50 AM, "TimOC" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I have a question about beancount. I read the documentation and i had the >> idea of using beancount to manage a calorie budget. >> >> essentially something like: >> >> Start with an Initial weight in Fat calories >> Base metabolic rate. >> Accounts for Macronutrients such as Fat, Protein, Carbs. >> >> I can then use it for forecasting, etc. >> >> Is this feasible? >> >> best regards, >> >> Tim. >> >> >> -- >> 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/ms >> gid/beancount/26734031-9a16-481f-ac3e-9b93102eabd1%40googlegroups.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/26734031-9a16-481f-ac3e-9b93102eabd1%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> >> -- > 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/5852bf5e-a9a3-4949-bf1e-4ebe71c26b11%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/5852bf5e-a9a3-4949-bf1e-4ebe71c26b11%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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%2BhNMmNkmS3qV5tz%3DxUH%2BPWmBwOAsLoF7XFkP0Oe%2BE-X_9w%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
