On 2021-02-08 19:43, Justus Pendleton 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.
The only problem with that is that Beancount's time reolution is only
down to the day, after which it falls back to file order.
Not trying to take away from your point, as it's a good one and should
at least be considered.
It is also entirely possible that I am still just firmly in the former
camp and have not yet been able to let go of my rigidly heirarchical
file structure in order to fully embrace your Zen-like realization.
Probably because I am descended from Germans... :D
Cheers,
TRS-80
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