> > I beg to disagree. At a conceptual level they are very different > information. The payee is the entity you gave money to (or get money > from, in some interpretations) and is usually something that tend to > recur in your ledger (e.g. Safe Way, Whole Foods, Enron, etc.). OTOH the > narrative is a open-ended description of the specific details of a > transaction (e.g. "grocery for holidays in the Yellowstone Park", > "weekly grocery", "fuel for work trip to San Francisco", etc.). > > Conflating them into a single bucket of information has drawbacks, as I > believe my examples show. (YMMV, of course.) > > Totally agree. Plus, application of 'payee' tag transaction-wide means that the 'register' report's output is affected, because the template refers to 'payee' value. In general, IMHO the original ledger cli's syntax prescribing placement of payee name in the first line hinders use of the program for general accounting purpose because there are a lot of situations where majority of transactions do not relate to the movement of cash at all. For example, (in prof. accounting language) general ledger transactions are payee agnostic. I believe that this flaw is due to the great success of the program, which was initially was designed for certain limited application, while at present proved to be capable to deal with wide range of tasks.
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