On Saturday, April 21, 2018 at 7:37:28 PM UTC+7, mpl...@gmail.com wrote: > > As the title says i wonder when to use tags and when to create separate > account? >
I don't know if there's really any set best practice. I use tags for (relatively) short lived things. For instance, if I'm on a vacation, it all goes to Expenses:Vacation but I'll tag each vacation separately #iceland #hongkong etc. Or if I'm trying to get any kind of "cross-account" view on something. Say I'm doing a home remodel. I would tag everything as #remodel even if various expenses might come from multiple accounts (Expense:Tax, Expense:Legal, Expense:etc....). In your case since it is more of an on-going thing I would create sub accounts as you've done. But that's just me. One good thing about plaintext accounting is that it is (somewhat) easy to massively restructure everything if you ever change your mind. -- 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 beancount+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to beancount@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/9c26ae32-9d8d-4d75-9122-5769ad3de708%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
