I am the developer of fava-envelope Out of the box, fava-envelope can not do this unless you use multiple currencies (like USD_PARTNER for the other asset). fava-envelope uses separate budgets for each currency.
I can look into the feasibility of making this use case when I get time On Sunday, October 8, 2023 at 9:17:23 PM UTC-4 Brian Lalor wrote: > I’m diving deep into Beancount, about two weeks in, now, and I’m really > liking what I’m seeing; kudos to everyone who’s written software and > documentation to make getting started relatively painless! > > I was a YNAB user for a bit but fell off the wagon. I’m looking to > replicate the budgeting aspects of that product, in addition to tracking > investments. I’m off to a good start. I’m ultimately trying to track > expenses and budgets for myself and also my household; like others my > partner and I have “mine” and “ours” buckets of money and it’s served us > well, but both “mine” and “ours” could use some budgeting. I’ve been > attempting to virtually separate those buckets within a single Beancount > ledger, but I’m suspecting that I may end up having separate ledgers… > > I’ve started looking at fava-envelope, but I’m not sure it can do what I > would like: designate AssetA as the budget account for ExpenseA, and > AssetB as the budget account for ExpenseB and ExpenseB’. Is that possible > with fava-envelope? If not, is there another envelope budgeting extension > that might come closer? > > I’d also be interested in hearing about other approaches to managing > budgets with Beancount that isn’t just trying to ape YNAB! 😄 > > Thanks, > Brian > — > Brian Lalor (he/him) > [email protected] > > -- 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/edcd278a-f90b-4ed2-8550-41c227871e9dn%40googlegroups.com.
