Thanks! Looking forward to playing around with it. — Brian Lalor (he/him) bla...@bravo5.org
> On Oct 3, 2023, at 8:43 PM, Juan Pinto <j...@jdpinto.com> wrote: > > Sure! Here's what the top of my budget file looks like: > > 2023-09-01 custom "envelope" "start date" "2023-09" > > 2023-01-01 custom "envelope" "budget account" "Assets:Joint:*" > 2023-01-01 custom "envelope" "budget account" "Assets:Debts:*" > 2023-01-01 custom "envelope" "budget account" "Assets:Juan:GiftCards:*" > 2023-01-01 custom "envelope" "budget account" "Assets:EBT:*" > 2023-01-01 custom "envelope" "budget account" "Liabilities:*" > > 2020-01-01 custom "envelope" "months ahead" "4" > > ** Mappings > > 2023-01-01 custom "envelope" "mapping" "Expenses:Taxes:*" "Income" > 2023-01-01 custom "envelope" "mapping" "Expenses:Investment:*" "Income" > 2023-01-01 custom "envelope" "mapping" "Assets:Juan:Investment:*" "Income" > 2023-01-01 custom "envelope" "mapping" "Equity:*" "Income" > > 2023-01-01 custom "envelope" "mapping" "Expenses:Monthly:Rent" "1.1 Rent 🏠" > 2023-01-01 custom "envelope" "mapping" "Expenses:Monthly:Utilities" "1.2 > Utilities 🚰" > 2023-01-01 custom "envelope" "mapping" "Expenses:Monthly:Groceries" "1.3 > Groceries 🛒" > 2023-01-01 custom "envelope" "mapping" "Expenses:Monthly:Phone" "1.4 Phone 📱" > 2023-01-01 custom "envelope" "mapping" "Expenses:Monthly:Subscriptions" "1.5 > Subscriptions 📆" > > The trickiest part for me was figuring out how to hide accounts. Mapping them > to "Income" like this seems to work just fine. Here's what this looks like on > Fava: > > <Screenshot 2023-10-03 at 7.41.18 PM.png> > > Anything still in the "Available" column at the end of the month carries over > to the next month. So far everything's working well, but it's still pretty > early in my journey. I do wish there was a way to modify the budget directly > from within Fava. > > —Juan > > On Wednesday, September 27, 2023 at 9:21:50 AM UTC-5 Brian Lalor wrote: >> I’m really curious how this works for you. Would you mind sharing an >> approximate example? There’s little in the fava-envelope showing the >> workflow, and how the beans flow over time. >> >> I may be about on the same place in my Beancount journey as you, Juan. I >> kind of abandoned YNAB a few months ago, but I really like the >> envelope-budgeting idea and would like to incorporate a similar idea in >> Beancount to try to manage spending. >> >> >> — >> Brian Lalor (he/him) >> bla...@bravo5.org <> >> >> >>> On Sep 27, 2023, at 8:17 AM, ju...@jdpinto.com <> wrote: >>> >> >>> Whoop, I was wrong. It did actually work as intended when I mapped accounts >>> to exclude to “Income”, I was just miscalculating how much I had for the >>> month (forgot to add what has already been spent this month). Please >>> disregard! >>> >>> —Juan >>> >>> From: bean...@googlegroups.com <> <bean...@googlegroups.com <>> on behalf >>> of Juan Pinto <ju...@jdpinto.com <>> >>> Date: Tuesday, September 26, 2023 at 5:52 PM >>> To: Beancount <bean...@googlegroups.com <>> >>> Subject: excluding accounts in fava-envelope >>> >>> Hello, I'm new to the world of plain-text accounting but have been diving >>> in head-first and learning a ton. >>> >>> I'm trying to set up my YNAB-style budget using fava-envelope, but have run >>> into an issue. I have some investment sub-accounts under >>> Assets:Investment:*, and it appears that if I've transferred money into one >>> of these from one of my bank accounts, those transactions show up in the >>> budget as categories. I end up seeing something like >>> "Assets:Investment:Vanguard" with the amount corresponding to how much I >>> put in that month. I've tried mapping these accounts to "Income" as someone >>> suggested, but this seems to throw the "funds for month" out of whack. >>> >>> Is there a more robust way to exclude accounts from the budget >>> calculations? 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