Hi, I cannot help you on emacs, I'm using VisualCode in all my machines with the beancount plugin... If you didn't try, I recommend you!
For the years of transactions: I had the same problem as you, I loved beancount from the beginning but with thousands of transactions in several banks, with different reports, etc... was just... A nightmare. What I did? Basically starting from today! I took all my assets and started with: 2019-01-01 * "Open balance" Equity:Balance-Init Assets:Bank:AABB 12345.00 USD Later, each week-end I had some hours, I was using a combination of spreadsheets and CSV exported from each account/broker/etc to get the transactions in beancount mode, and I was adding to the file... modifying the initial Equity:Balance-Init entry ;-) The main problem with lot of people I know that they where starting with beancount (that apply to other systems) is that they want to have **everything** translated with a "magic" command: "get beancount from xxx, yyy, zzz" and that doesn't exist, at least, I don't know how to do it. The advice: Start with last past week translations, and go back slowly as soon as you have some time to spend. For reference, I have 8000 lines (not transactions, lines of code) written in my ledgers from 2017 until now and took me... around 40, 50 hours of work. Regards On Sunday, December 22, 2019 at 11:42:03 AM UTC+1, Jonathan Goldman wrote: > > I got emacs to work with the beancount.el file. It nicely color-codes > everything. However, if I activate org mode the colors disappear. I suspect > this is incorrect behavior and there must be something I'm doing wrong. Any > suggestions of what might not be working? > > (Apologies if this is a really basic question...I'm totally new to > beancount and while I have used emacs, I have never used org mode). > > Also, I was using Mint for a few years, then Quicken for the last 3 years > and I'm trying to migrate entirely to beancount and its a lot to migrate > and for someone who is not a software engineer. I can write some python but > it seems to be a daunting task to complete the migration and figure out all > the CSV import scripts. I'll keep chipping away, but wondering if there are > meetups/1:1 help or other mechanisms one might suggest to get going? > > One approach is to do everything manually for now and focus only on big > items (e.g. don't worry about automating the import of data from credit > card transactions). Then, later, as I get more import scripts going add all > detailed data and historical data. That is you could enter current bank > balance, current stock holdings, and then just go from there manually so > there is useful data now. Then I can add this past year stock buy/sells and > dividend information as that will help me with tax info. > > > > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/0c7a518c-bb0e-49fa-9380-a84eb3bc11ef%40googlegroups.com.
