I have organized my ledger journal files by month, so that all transactions for a month are in the same file. I have a template ledger file that contains transactions that are recurring each month, with an XX for the month, and a typical or estimated value for the transactions. When I need to add a transaction for the next month (most often scheduling a credit card payment to happen on the due date that is in the next month), I copy my template file to the next monthly file, edit the dates on all transactions to be correct for the new month, then adjust the dates on the few bi-weekly transactions to be correct.
For transactions where I need to take special action for the bill to be paid, I leave the transaction marked with a ! to indicate it as pending until I actually make the payment. This lets me see what I need to do for the next month or so with the --pending flag on the register report. For automatic transactions that I don't need to do anything for them to happen, they are entered in the template file as uncleared. This approach has worked pretty well for me for the 6 months or so that I've been using ledger. chris On Wednesday, July 9, 2014 11:55:35 PM UTC-4, Craig Earls wrote: > > I want ledger to remind me that I need to pay my electric bill on the > 28th and that I get paid every other Thursday, and that my HOA dues > are every three months. I usually post transactions two weeks in > advance which tells me if I am going to outrun my paycheck. I direct > a large portion of my pay towards a retirement account which enforces > a defacto budget on me. It works for me, but I doubt anyone else will > use it that way. > > > -- --- 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.
