Sorry,
correction to comparison table
| tags | links | meta
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can be filtered by in beanquery | Yes | Yes | Yes No
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Can be several ones in one transaction | Yes | Yes | No
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can be grouped by in beanquery | No | No | Yes
On Tuesday, June 4, 2024 at 12:11:57 PM UTC+2 Chary Chary wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I am just trying to find the best solution for grouping postings in
> addition to them being grouped by accounts.
>
> Just want to check my understanding
>
> The obvious choices are are links, tags and meta
>
> From your experience are there any specific reasons one would use one over
> another:
>
> 2020-01-01 open Assets:Cash
> 2020-01-01 open Expenses:Food
>
> 2020-01-01 * "Buying something with tag " #some-label #some-label2
> Assets:Cash -100.00 USD
> Expenses:Food
>
> 2020-01-01 * "Buying something with link" ^some-label ^some-label2
> Assets:Cash -100.00 USD
> Expenses:Food
>
> 2020-01-01 * "Buying something with meta"
> label: "some-label"
> Assets:Cash -100.00 USD
> Expenses:Food
>
>
> My comparison table is | tags | links | meta
> -----------------------------------------------------
> can be filtered by in beanquery | Yes | Yes | No
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Can be several ones in one transaction | Yes | Yes | No
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> can be grouped by in beanquery | No | No | Yes
>
>
> So, so far my conclusions are:
>
> tags and links are pretty much the same (??? did I miss some difference ??)
> If you need filtering by - use tags or links
> if you need grouping by and filtering - use meta
>
> Any comments?
>
>
>
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