Another way I've been toying with to abuse beancount is to keep track of car mileage. I have a dedicated app for that now, but since I input every credit card payment for petrol anyway, having a 'currency conversion' to litres (based on the moving price of petrol) as well as a 'miles travelled' currency would allow for interesting custom reports on my car's mileage, 'budgeting' to see when servicing is due, etc.
On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 9:24 PM, Martin Blais <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/ms >> gid/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 > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/CAK21%2BhNMmNkmS3qV5tz%3DxUH%2BPWmBwOAsLoF7XFkP0Oe%2BE-X_9w%40mail.gmail.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/CAGQ70etXCrF70mPn32C7%2BrKi5bS2LLjhFPcSPwXp_CE4Z%2BT1oA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
