On Wednesday, May 20, 2015 at 11:16:40 PM UTC+2, John Wiegley wrote:
>
> >>>>> Max Linke <[email protected] <javascript:>> writes: 
>
> > I would like to create a special monthly report that helps me track my 
> > spending. I would like to see how much money I spend each month minus 
> > regularly occurring costs (rent, grocery budget, electricity, ...) . I 
> would 
> > like to decide which transaction was regular based on meta-data (I have 
> > regular payments and one-off payments to the same payees or expenses 
> > account) 
>
> This is basically what the --budget feature is for. 
>

I've seen it in the manual. But from the explanation their it doesn't look 
like I can change the budgets over time.
Sometimes my budgets change due to a move or because I get a new job and 
can spend more.

So for example I want to have a budget report for the year 2014 to see how 
I did. But in September I moved due to
a new job. So I have to increase my budget for rent/groceries/... from 
September on. How would it be possible to get a accurate
budget report for the whole year then?
 

>
> > Also is it possible at all to filter transactions according to 
> meta-data? 
>
> Sure, use 'not %Foo' in your query, and it will omit those with that 
> metadata 
> tag. %Foo=Bar will further constraint to those where Foo matches the 
> regexp 
> Bar.  And you can do more, if that is needed. 
>

Cool I didn't know that. And can't currently find it in the manual 
 

>
> John 
>

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