If you work like that you can also use the "location" column in bean-query in combination with Emacs to jump around the selected transactions, e.g. with "next-error".
On Mon, Feb 8, 2021 at 7:43 PM Justus Pendleton <[email protected]> wrote: > On Monday, February 8, 2021 at 12:28:16 AM UTC+7 [email protected] > wrote: > >> The headers I’ve created in my journal are per-institution-account (e.g. >> fidelity 401k) with sub-headers by year and then by month. > > > You might want to reconsider whether this level of organization (or any > organization, really) within the beancount file actually provides any value > or if you're just creating busy work for yourself. Don't get me wrong, I > totally know where you are coming from and started out trying to organize > my beancount file the same. But I eventually gave up because....why do I > actually need it organized by account or by month? Anytime I want to > actually see transactions that way I can easily get bean-report or > bean-query or fava to show it to me. > > At this point I consider the transaction ledger an append-only (and > largely write-only) document and I don't even care if things aren't in any > order at all. > > -- > 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/856c269a-93f2-48f3-bdbf-3799c5184bdfn%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/856c269a-93f2-48f3-bdbf-3799c5184bdfn%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/CAK21%2BhPjjZ_z4dRiHp%3DAmZ%2BCKD7iBH06vcgGHrGoraX4ktmg2g%40mail.gmail.com.
