Hi all, First of all, thanks for the great software!
I've been using Beancount for over a year now and over time moved most of financial stuff I've been previously doing in various spreadsheets, to Beancount. I've been very satisfied with how the whole process went, eventually covering all my needs. But throughout I used some of the approaches not mentioned or recommended anywhere so I decided to write a guide to potentially shorten this or similar path for others. In particular, the first hypothesis I tested in Beancount was using the pad and balance directives to manually track total balances of the accounts at regular points in time (that was covered by a spreadsheet I created before). That worked, and then I started to look into importers, beangulp, then later beancount-import to fill the gaps in high-level numbers. As well as that I tried to reuse other existing plugins to solve other common problems / answer questions with the data. When I put it all together in an attempt to share config/approach I ended up with this repository: https://github.com/Evernight/lazy-beancount (and the guide at https://lazy-beancount.xyz/). It takes what worked for me and puts it together in a Docker container that can be launched with a single command. Most of the functionality is provided by already existing Beancount libraries and tools but there's some original code like the https://github.com/Evernight/beancount-valuation plugin or UIs on top of it all (could possibly be Fava plugin but it's separate for now for the simplicity of prototyping). Hopefully it turns out to be useful for others as well. Please let me know if you have any feedback :) Cheers, Vasily -- 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/d824a27e-f477-4760-ba6a-bdefeda29d3an%40googlegroups.com.
