On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Tim Crews <[email protected]> wrote:
> > In this case, your ledger file has become the center of an impromptu > semantic web of information about your life. Obviously, that wasn't what > ledger was designed for. But our finances are one of the few areas in life > that we really need to record at this level of detail. Since the financial > dimension of our lives intersects with so many other dimensions, the result > of recording our finances has the unanticipated benefit of also recording > our lives. > On that topic, I find it convenient for the Ledger to be a place to also put dated notes associated to accounts (Beancount "note" directive, e.g. you make a phone call to an institution and note what they said to resolve the issue), and to track time-based events (Beancount "date" directive). These are still somewhat financially-related, e.g., to calculate the number of days one spent in one particular country for the purpose of determining residency. The side-effect is that it automatically tracks all trips I've made, my address changes over the years, employer changes, etc. I love text files. -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ledger" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
