Thanks! I've tried to experiment with aux-dates to see if I could rig up a system to remind me to deposit a check, but I haven't been able to get my head around it yet.
One thing I've never been able to make my peace with is the fact that I have to go back in and edit the ledger to update a transaction to mark a check as cleared. In my mind, the ledger should be "append only" - going back in to change a ! to a * is counter-intuitive. I've been thinking of wrapping a simple rent collection system around ledge. An append-only mechanism would reduce the probability of file corruption greatly - without it, I'm facing writing my own simplistic parser to mimic ledger, which given my programming/scripting skills is a recipe for disaster. On Wednesday, July 18, 2012 4:32:44 PM UTC+4, Deepak Narain wrote: > > Curious to know how people deal with future dated checks. > > Its pretty common in my neck of the woods for payments to be made via > future dated (aka post-dated) checks. E.g. on January 1st, my tenant gives > me 12 checks for the year - each one dated the 1st of the month for that > month's rent. > > I can mark the transaction as Pending with a date in the future when i > enter it into the ledger, and then clear it when the check cashes. But, > wanted to see if there are any more creative approaches. > > >
