I recommend that you start simple. If you are not in the habit of managing your finances in detail it can get overwhelming. What you are planning is the equivalent of learning how to swim by tying an anchor around your feet and jumping into the ocean. Start off with a simple account structure and work from there. As you gain experience with the tool you can add any information you want.
Ledger can do amazing things. But it won't solve the human nature problem of not wanting to spend the time to track things while there is more fun to do. I totally understand the desire to track the cost of your favorite stinky cheese. But you will not get much value from it if your data entry is so onerous that you stop tracking. On Monday, October 13, 2014, Roman Grazhdan <[email protected]> wrote: > > What output do you want? > > I wish I knew! I've heard money are to be managed, so I'm looking for a > tool. To build up a habit to write stuff down, I need it to be comfortable > for me, which is command line/plain text. I also strongly dislike the idea > of sending such intimate information to third party server to process and > store, so Ledger looks good. And since I'm collecting information anyway, > I'd like to collect as much as possible and then when I have data I'd see > what I can do with it and how it can help me. I guess I'd be happy with > basic balance reports and a way to relatively easily find out how my > favorite sort of coffee gets more expensive over time, and that's it. > > On Monday, October 13, 2014 5:00:03 PM UTC+4, Craig Earls wrote: >> >> I think you need to come at this from a different angle. What output do >> you want? Once you have a good idea of that, then you can figure how to >> get ledger to give you the output, which necessarily sets the >> representation. >> >> -- > > --- > 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] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','ledger-cli%[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.
