I think the most straightforward way to handle this is to write your own plugin that adds the relevant directives. Should be very simple to do.
On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 5:37 PM Andrzej <[email protected]> wrote: > I want to make my past tax returns visible to beancount via document > directive. My problem is that I like to store all documents relevant to > taxation year in one directory. I'm wondering if someone already had > similar issue? > I'm fine with implementing it myself, I just have no idea what is right > abstraction here. > > *Problem statement* > My current structure looks like this: > documents/Expenses/Taxes$ find > > 2016/taxform1.pdf > 2016/taxform2.pdf > 2016/signed.jpg > > 2017/taxform3.pdf > 2017/signed.jpg > 2017/calculations.xlsx > 2017/notes.txt > > Each tax year has 3-10 files inside (structure differs year by year) > > I would like to add all contents of a directory as a document, something > along the lines: > 2017-04-10 document Expenses:Taxes "documents/Expenses/Taxes/2016" > 2018-04-05 document Expenses:Taxes "documents/Expenses/Taxes/2017" > > It's fine to change directory name to some other name (such as > 2017-04-10.filing/) > I'd like to keep filenames without dates to make manual navigation easier > (I do read those files later). > > *Possible solutions* > 0. Support directory documents - right now I can see that no one expected > this, it chokes fava :) > > 1. Add tar files for each such directory > Issues: > - it makes files harder to find something in those files > - Reading them requires extra step > > 2. Just add all files manually: > 2017-04-10 document Expenses:Taxes > "documents/Expenses/Taxes/2016/taxform1.pdf" > 2017-04-10 document Expenses:Taxes > "documents/Expenses/Taxes/2016/taxform2.pdf" > 2017-04-10 document Expenses:Taxes > "documents/Expenses/Taxes/2016/signed.jpg" > ... > > Issues > a: I may forget to add some files (for example ones created later) > b: Quite verbose, it requires me to list all files (probably fine, there > are not so many of them) > > 2a. Write plugin to check that all files in a directory structure are > added as documents. > It only leaves issue b (which is not big deal) > > 3. Write plugin that navigates the path > PATH/TO/ACCOUNT/<DATE>.<TAG>/file > and creates document entry for each file, it could use directory naming > scheme like "2017-04-10.tax_16" to know the date. Then file path would look > like this: > documents/Expenses/Taxes/2017-04-10.tax_16/taxform1.pdf > > and plugin would generate entry like so: > 2017-04-10 Expenses:Taxes > "documents/Expenses/Taxes/2017-04-10.tax_16/taxform1.pdf" #tax_16 > > -- > 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/2ecc25b3-7fdf-42a9-94df-7c0a326b2a4b%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/2ecc25b3-7fdf-42a9-94df-7c0a326b2a4b%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%2BhM8vxpzMZf-GV%2B2qOpLUwKBDY-oqRHRBmAsh_dr%2BUgX8w%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
