On 2021-02-07 10:23, Dustin Farris wrote:
* I update my journal every month. Getting updated transactions from 25+ different accounts every month is very time consuming.
I just noticed this, while reading back over the last email I sent. That is a tremendous number of accounts (I am assuming by "account" here you mean bank/brokerage/card or whatever). I can only imagine how many /transactions/ that actually works out to. Therefore maybe some automation /is/ in order, in your case. Or hiring a bookkeeper / assistant! At minimum, I would suggest putting aside a significant amount of your own time to be able to handle the workload properly. But I am sure you are aware of that already. Anyway, the sheer volume of work here is an aspect of your "problem" that I feel should be identified in it's own right, and addressed. Although the "right" solution will depend on what suits you and your situation. In a way, text based accounting may be the only tool which makes such a complicated and voluminous workload possible to keep track of (especially when considering long term archival, and eschewing lock-in). Perhaps that's why you keep coming back, maybe you are (consciously or not) realizing the limitations of off-the-shelf tools. As mentioned in my other email already, maybe it's then juat a matter of fashioning some tools /around/ Beancount to help you keep up with the volume. Cheers, TRS-80 -- 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/3c70ec07dcec427af8f8cdaa56ff5156%40isnotmyreal.name.
