+1 Start using it on a subset of accounts, figure out if you like it. If you do, worry about converting all the past later.
On Sun, Dec 22, 2019 at 6:25 AM <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. -- 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/CAK21%2BhN3Z0GN8yWyAGn%2BFYrBzUGB8xMEj3R4ZptK4CiiWYB8Aw%40mail.gmail.com.
