FWIW I have been using beancount for many years, love it, but it is not the tool for modeling flows or forecasting.
The data it captures can feed a model, but getting that model to a useful place can be quite a lot of work and is an entirely separate domain from the ledger. I think there is an opportunity for someone to put together a Jupyter notebook that brings in some basic modeling infrastructure and can pull in ledger data with SQL. Not a trivial task but would be quite useful for a lot of people. On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 11:08 AM <[email protected]> wrote: > I have yet to set up a working system. I've not even gotten invested in > beancount yet. > > I had planned to simply use beancount to get acquainted and if I needed > more maybe develop a plugin. Though obviously I have to date shied away > from that effort. ;) > > Am Sonntag, 5. April 2020 15:02:41 UTC+2 schrieb Makdisse: >> >> I wonder what did you end up using to achieve the outcome you needed? >> >> >> On Tuesday, 10 September 2019 11:57:36 UTC+1, [email protected] wrote: >>> >>> I'm looking at Beancount to get a better grasp of my expenses. A vital >>> part of that are regular expenses, things like income, monthly rent, yearly >>> insurance fees, or semesterly university fees. I'm surprised to find no >>> documentation on how to manage such regular expenses with Beancount. I've >>> searched the documentation, this group, and the web, but the closest thing >>> I've found is the forecast plugin which marks itself as experimental and >>> seems minimal. >>> Instead, I'm under the impression that I'm supposed not to project these >>> costs into the future, but to just keep track of the actual transactions >>> that have occurred in the past. However, this feels insufficient to me, >>> since it seems important to know how much money I will have left next month >>> to spend on running costs. >>> >>> Therefore I would love some feedback on how you handle recurring >>> expenses with Beancount and whether it's the right tool for what I'm >>> looking for? >>> >> -- > 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/90d4727b-95f4-4fcc-b05d-85669ff10403%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/90d4727b-95f4-4fcc-b05d-85669ff10403%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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/CANoO%3DwQexebu_99cyKwXhq8MPiDiJVhH36DjmGyRerhcv%2BiYLw%40mail.gmail.com.
