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.
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