A quick question regarding the current statet of multiple (or include) files and Beancount. I'm one of those who prefer to keep certain sections separate (accounts, prices, journal, commodities). This helps me also to track the changes separately.
With the convenience of plain-text-accounting I'm now considering exporting all my data from Quicken (a bit less than 20 years, I think) and checking how everything would work with PTA tools. So, naturally, I'm a bit concerned about the performance in that case. Separating files by year (or at least a decade!) would help. Include files would be good in order to create the summary files, which combine certain years and/or balance files from previous years. Also, I'd really prefer to keep the price database outside the journal. Additionally, coming from GnuCash, I even find the account open/close directives a bit of an extra functionality. I wouldn't mind if these were optional, kind of what ledger does with --strict. Also, open/close could be a property on an account object. Somehow I see these as metadata. It is not directly useful in the journal but can be made useful by a plugin that checks the validity dates, etc. In reality I have an account which I closed last year but am still getting transactions on it. It's a brokerage which I no longer use but some tax and fee adjustments still get deposited from time to time. I assume this will stop at the end of this tax year but it shows that a closed account is not really a closed account. ;) Note that none of these are feature requests. Just thinking out loud. -- 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/1599a197-5ca8-4432-a2df-963416fd8841%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
