On Mon, May 20, 2024 at 03:33:15AM GMT, Felipe Flores wrote:
Hey all, came here to express some gratitude for all the work you guys are
doing. I've been using beancount with fava to manage all my finances down
to the dollar for the last year or so, and I absolutely love it.
Just wanted to add that I just migrated a bunch of importers to beangulp,
and it was way easier than I expected. Wonderful job there. The whole
reason I tried it out is that I spent a couple hours pulling my hair trying
to connect a debugger to my regression tests to no avail. With beangulp,
however, I just had to tell the debugger config to launch the file with
args (one of identify, generate, test, etc) and it worked just like that!
I'd even suggest you guys advertise this as a feature!
If anyone stumbles upon this thread wondering whether they should move over
to beangulp: do it. It's an easy migration, and they've even added an
ImporterProtocol class that will make the transition even smoother.
Thanks again!
In case people haven't heard of it, I've been quite happy with
beancount-import:
https://github.com/jbms/beancount-import
I have not tried beangulp, so I don't know how they compare. But I
will mention beancount-import:
- Has a web interface letting me quickly categorize transactions
(i.e. choose which account my money went to).
- Chooses the right account automatically most the time (maybe 95%),
so mostly in this web interface I'm just pressing enter to confirm
each transaction. To do this, it trains a model based on transactions
already in my beancount ledger.
- Adds metadata to imported transactions to keep track of where they
came from (e.g. a transaction ID from an ofx file). This lets me
(a) not worry about whether or not I've imported something (e.g. when
I export from my bank, I just replace my existing ofx download with
a new one covering a longer time range) and (b) see a list of
postings I've entered manually that don't correspond to anything
imported (a sign something went wrong). This is my favourite
feature and I wonder if beangulp has something similar.
- Also, I have been able to write my own custom importer including
unit tests without much difficulty.
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James
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