Thanks for the pointer - I'll keep it in mind!

On Thursday, January 5, 2017 at 5:00:04 PM UTC-5, Gina White wrote:
>
> I'm interested to see where this goes too.
>
> FWIW, I'm pretty a pretty happy user of ledger: http://www.ledger-cli.org/
>
> It would be nice if the internal format that camlistore ends up using is 
> compatible enough with ledger that it would be possible to import ledger 
> transactions into camlistore and to import camlistore transactions into 
> ledger.  Ledger has a lot of reporting capabilities and being able to use 
> it to do the reporting on transactions sitting in camlistore would be one 
> way to quickly get a lot of functionality without writing it all from 
> scratch.
>
> A few months ago a small group of ledger users got together to hack on it 
> and it was hosted at plaid.  There isn't any official connection between 
> plaid and ledger; but one of the plaid employees is an advanced ledger user.
>
> - Gina
>
> On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 11:10 AM Eric Drechsel <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> Partially answering my own question: whitelisting a few categories like 
>> Food and Drink, Recreation could probably catch 90% of in person 
>> transactions, with some false positives. Not sure how you'd identify the 
>> appropriate Place from foursquare data or whatever though. 
>> https://github.com/plaid/Support/blob/master/categories.md
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 11:03 AM, Eric Drechsel <[email protected] 
>> <javascript:>> wrote:
>>
>>> This sounds super cool. I'm very interested in importing transactions. 
>>> Aside from financial history, this data might be useful as an additional 
>>> source of foursquare-style checkins, if transactions could be reliably 
>>> associated with places. I wonder if Plaid's normalization does anything to 
>>> indicate whether a transaction was an in-person.
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 8:56 AM, Michael Morrissey <[email protected] 
>>> <javascript:>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> As an experiment to learn the flow of importers, I put together a quick 
>>>> PoC of importing my credit card transactions using Plaid 
>>>> <https://plaid.com/>. (Why let credit card companies have all the fun 
>>>> with your data?) There's still a ton to do, but I have the rough outline 
>>>> now. 
>>>>
>>>> So some questions:
>>>> - Is there general interest in importing transactions? If so, I'll keep 
>>>> going.
>>>> - Any objections to pulling in Plaid's go library 
>>>> <https://github.com/plaid/plaid-go>? (MIT license)
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Michael
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