I couldn't agree more. I took all of my automations and scripts and roughly calculated that I am saving at least a week every year in time. That's a free week of vacation! Now multiply that every single year and with the scripts and automations continually being added it has a compound effect.
All from single scripts and automations that may *only* save a minute or two each time. On Mon, Aug 8, 2022 at 11:53 AM Adrien Monteleone < [email protected]> wrote: > Here's a use case: > > Vendor invoices containing 10+ line items that need to be entered into > both an accounting package and an inventory/POS system. > > Multiply that case by a dozen or more a week. > > And compound it by said 'PDF' invoice being a *scan*. (which of course > means really good OCR needs to be in the workflow) Despite computers > being near ubiquitous in business today, I'd hazard a guess of 93.46% of > them are clueless as to how to use computers efficiently. It seems as if > their approach is akin to someone with only a hammer, Duck Tape, & WD-40 > in their toolbox no matter what the job requires. > > Now, let's multiply that again: you are the sole person responsible for > this data entry for 2 or more businesses. > > I'd rather have a script take me time to craft so I can one-click the > data 'conversion' from print to CSV and then spend my time reviewing the > result rather than a high chance of data entry taking even more of my time. > > Regards, > Adrien > > On 8/7/22 8:12 AM, David T. via gnucash-user wrote: > > I can't imagine having so many transactions that the time it took to > program the process would in the end save me time in doing the accounting. > > > > My method for processing pdf statements is to open the pdf statement in > one window and enter my transactions in GnuCash in another-- the old > fashioned way: by keying them in. This is remarkably quick in most cases, > due to autofill-- and it gives me a sanity check on the data that's getting > input (does that transaction look right?). It works pretty well for me. > > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > [email protected] > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
