I forecast the next two weeks. As the transactions are realized I edit the amount on the predicted transaction, which is usually very close. I have a CSV importer that handles the rest. The real reason is that I can predict how much I can spend on the extras. I don't budget everything, I have a preset amount that goes into savings, I know what my regular expenses are, those are in the ledger-schedule file I keep. I run a cleared report to see how much isn't obligated in the next two weeks, and that is "fun money".
As I said I wrote this thing for myself and I don't know if anyone else will use it. It has been in place for almost two years and this is the first question on it. Mostly that is spurring me to finish the last ten percent. On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 6:21 AM, Martin Blais <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 9:12 AM, Douglas Philips <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> On 7/10/14 8:59 AM, Martin Blais wrote: >> > I *never* need to synthesize a new transaction. Cut-n-past works fine. >> > >> > Why do you need this? >> > Why isn't cut-n-paste enough? >> > What are you doing differently from me? >> >> Predicting the future? > > > Forecasting is the only use case there that makes sense to me so far. > Do you delete the forecast entries when they become realized? > > Are there any non-forecast use cases? > > > > > -- > > --- > 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. -- Craig, Corona De Tucson, AZ enderw88.wordpress.com -- --- 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.
