"The proper way to do this is to use price notation "@" and "@@". But that may be an overkill since you may have many different items to track. " -could you explain why is it overkill? I look up your suggestion in Beancount Syntax Cheat Sheet and seems like i can do
2019-04-01 * "Key Foods" Expenses:Personal:Food:Fruit:Apples 6.44 USD @ 1.49 USD Assets:Cash 2019-04-01 * "Key Foods" Expenses:Personal:Food:Fruit:Apples 8.01 USD @ 1.99 USD Assets:Cash etc "Another method would be to write the information you would like to keep in the metadata." -meta data can be put only 1 time per transaction, correct? So if i have several posting/accounts in 1 transaction, example 2019-04-01 * "Key Foods" Expenses:Personal:Food:Fruit:Apples 8.01 USD Expenses:Personal:Food:Meat:Beef 24.63 USD Assets:Cash than i won't be able to put separate meta data for each? What i do now is 2019-04-01 * "Key Foods" Expenses:Personal:Food:Fruit:Apples 8.01 USD ; 1.99 lb Expenses:Personal:Food:Meat:Beef 24.63 USD ; 5.99 lb Assets:Cash But problem comments are not displayed in fava On Monday, April 15, 2019 at 10:09:24 PM UTC-4, Zhuoyun Wei wrote: > > The proper way to do this is to use price notation "@" and "@@". But that > may be an overkill since you may have many different items to track. > > Another method would be to write the information you would like to keep in > the metadata. > > -- > Zhuoyun Wei > > On Tue, Apr 16, 2019, at 05:04, [email protected] <javascript:> wrote: > > Guys hi, > > > > Before i was tracking food in 1 single account > > > > Expenses:Personal:Food > > > > But than i tried to split them in particular food categories > > > > Expenses:Personal:Food:Fruit:Apples > > Expenses:Personal:Food:Meat:Beef > > etc > > > > And found out that this way i can see much more clear picture and that > > i started to care how much i actually paid per pound. > > i've found out that often price on same food item can very greatly > > (apples can cost 0.99lb, 1.49lb and 1.99lb for same variety even in > > same market) > > > > What's the best way to track it? > > > > Let's say now i have > > > > 2019-03-01 * "Key Foods" > > Expenses:Personal:Food:Fruit:Apples 4.17 USD > > Assets:Cash > > > > 2019-03-15 * "Key Foods" > > Expenses:Personal:Food:Fruit:Apples 6.44 USD > > Assets:Cash > > > > 2019-04-01 * "Key Foods" > > Expenses:Personal:Food:Fruit:Apples 8.01 USD > > Assets:Cash > > > > And there is no way to tell which of these transactions were a good buy > > (for 0.99lb), and which were a more careless buy (for 1.99lb). > > > > -- > > 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] <javascript:>. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <javascript:>. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > > > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/1f04b82a-f4b1-49c9-a08d-c032aec888ed%40googlegroups.com > > < > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/1f04b82a-f4b1-49c9-a08d-c032aec888ed%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/5021191b-8c0a-43b8-9f80-d7b37af973c4%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
