yea that feature was done on purpose. I wanted to leave the beacount files as is and allow a way to reduce the number of envelopes you have. For example, in beancount I have expenses categories for pretty specific items that I like to track, but for budgeting I just want the bare minimal envelopes to make budgeting easier. I never thought of mapping taxes to Income, I might have to do that, lol.
Feel free to create an issue on something you want to add or change. I can always give my opinion and help work through bugs. I think the bare essentials of features are there, and the plugin really needs more polish, error checking, and tests. I do want to add graphs in too at some point. On Tuesday, June 16, 2020 at 11:00:42 AM UTC-4, Travis Dahlke wrote: > > Want to add I think this is an awesome start, I've been searching for > something like this for a while. > I figured out I can "exclude" income from the budget if I just map the > category to "Income" (e.g. Expenses:Taxes:Federal). Not sure if this is by > design but this is something I have found lacking in other tools and I > really dig it. > > I'd like to jump in and help if I have some time because I think this can > be a really great addition to beancount/fava. > > On Sunday, May 24, 2020 at 8:44:21 AM UTC-5, polarmutex wrote: >> >> Was taking a look at this today, i definitely do not have enough error >> checks. going to try to add more in to make the extension loads even if >> there are errors. >> >> Errors I have found initially is, If you pick a start date that from that >> start date to the current date there are no transactions will cause that >> error >> >> make sure you at least have the following lines: >> ``` >> 2020-01-01 custom "envelope" "start date" "2020-01" >> 2020-01-01 custom "envelope" "budget account" "Assets:Checking" >> 2020-01-01 custom "envelope" "budget account" "Liabilities:Credit-Cards:*" >> ``` >> of course making sure the assets and liabilities names match your >> beancount accounts >> >> I will continue to try making the onboarding experience better as I >> continue developing this. trying to get some testing going to >> > -- 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/0f99baa5-de57-4196-aa25-e5942dbd8253o%40googlegroups.com.
