I enter all my personal transactions into ledger. Mostly this comes from saving paper receipts or receiving (and tagging) receipts in email. But some transactions have no receipt, especially simple cash transactions. I used to write them down in a little notepad I keep in my wallet, but that was often awkward.
A few months ago, I discovered the todo.txt class of apps: http://todotxt.com/ It's a very simple class set of programs for many different platforms (mobile, web, CLI, emacs mode, etc) which revolve around a very simple one-line-per-task format. Most of the apps (eg the mobile apps) let you sync a file via dropbox. So it turns out that the todo.txt Android app (presumably iOS too) is really great as a companion to ledger! One click to open the app, one click to add a "task", type in some text like "grocery store $25.50", and pretty soon a line will appear in the text file in dropbox, helpfully tagged with the current date. It's easy to transcribe all these lines into ledger (one of these days I'll even write a script to convert the formats directly). Delete them or check them off (by adding "x" to the beginning of a line) once they're processed! Anyway, just thought other folks might benefit from this advice. --dave -- [email protected] | langtonlabs.org | flickr.com/photos/glasser/ -- --- 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/d/optout.
