It's simpler than you think. There's no reason why you'd need to have a separate input file. Time would be just another currency you made up (like VACHR), that can coexist with your other currencies (like USD). Instead of booking a 10 dollar expense, you'd book a 10 hour expense.
On Tuesday, February 19, 2019 at 2:40:29 PM UTC-8, [email protected] wrote: > > Here is example to make it clear what i mean: > > To do time tracking should i have separate ledger file? As i understand i > can't track money and time in same ledger cause it's different "matter". > > So i am thinking about creating time account: > Assets:Time > > and accounts showing how i spend time, > Expenses:Work:Programming > Expenses:Work:Design > Expenses:Hobbies:Running > Expenses:Hobbies:Reading > etc > > Do i understand it right? > > On Monday, February 18, 2019 at 1:03:00 PM UTC-5, Martin Blais wrote: >> >> On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 5:37 AM <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Martin, did you ever end up implementing it? >>> >> >> No. >> >> >> I would be also interested to have possibility to track time. >>> >> >> You already can; the only difference here is the input format. >> "1.5" hours vs. "1h30" as the input. >> >> >> On Sunday, September 25, 2016 at 10:27:50 PM UTC-4, Martin Blais wrote: >>>> >>>> Ah I see. You want "hours minutes" type of format, with minutes over 60 >>>> minutes to form an hour. >>>> >>>> I suppose we could define a number of regex "[0-9]{1,2}+h[0-9]{2}" to >>>> translate to the equivalent number of minutes or hours, generically. It's >>>> ugly - very specific, and could be used entirely out of context to do >>>> weird >>>> things - but it would work. >>>> >>>> I doubt I'll add that for a while, that would be quite a special case. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 10:24 PM, Eugene Kuzmitsky <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Sure, >>>>> >>>>> With VACHR approach, I believe, I can't record time intervals like 1h >>>>> 25 min etc. In ledger-cli we can use such a format, I guess, but not here. >>>>> >>>>> On Sunday, 25 September 2016 22:13:30 UTC-4, [email protected] wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Beancount lets you define any currency you want on the fly. You can >>>>>> plot any of these in fava. Can you be specific on why the VACHR example >>>>>> does not work for you? >>>>>> >>>>>> On Sunday, September 18, 2016 at 8:18:29 PM UTC-7, Eugene Kuzmitsky >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Hi! >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Being a Beancount user for a while, I'm just curious, is there any >>>>>>> method of tracking hours in Beancount? I mean ledger-like feature, not >>>>>>> just >>>>>>> VACHR (from example) without fractional part of hours. It would be >>>>>>> great to >>>>>>> have this, so one can plot the time spent by category, say, in fava. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Thank you in advance, >>>>>>> Eugene >>>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>> 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/c5bcead4-5827-4920-8685-db70fbd93e7f%40googlegroups.com >>>>> >>>>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/c5bcead4-5827-4920-8685-db70fbd93e7f%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/7f533483-fb10-4983-b6a8-30904442130a%40googlegroups.com >>> >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/7f533483-fb10-4983-b6a8-30904442130a%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/73a13a6e-5485-44ed-b414-5cff4f929914%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
