Greetings,
It's a fresh year and I've been seeing ledger come up on the Org-mode mailing list for some time and decided to give it a try. I'm coming from Moneydance and just wanted to get away from the tedious GUI method of adding information, as well as have flexibility to generate my own reports/visualizations with python or R, etc. [1] Consider that I'm about a week into reading through docs here and there during evenings. My first step was going to be importing a downloaded .csv from my bank to get started. I'm still trying to verify I get the terminology, so I'll use this from the manual: >From 5.1 Basic format: ``` This transaction has a date, a payee or description, a target account (the first posting), and a source account (the second posting). Each posting specifies what action is taken related to that account. ``` >From 7.2.1.2 The convert command: ``` The fields ledger can recognize contain these case-insensitive strings date, posted, code, payee or desc or description, amount, cost,total, and note. ``` For my purposes, I import my finances primarily to "categorize" (what I believe here is called adding an account) and assign a payee so that I can track my spending against a budget. So, I'm surprised there's no special column keyword I can add for "account". It appears that all I can do is pass, say, `--account "assets:checking"` to have ledger know it's against assets:checking? Is that correct? >From trying to google "import csv account ledger" or similar variations, I've been surprised that the only tools to do something like this appear to be interactive one-trans-at-a-time programs like icsv2ledger and reckon (granted, they can learn or follow rules). I could quickly go through my bank's .csv and add exp:food:dining, exp:auto:fuel to my ~100 transactions a month and have those imported just like the other column data. I feel like I must be missing something with respect to getting the from/to accounts added to the bank data. Perhaps to take a step back... - are the majority of folks writing their transactions by hand in ledger format? - is there some better way to import bulk data (e.g. via ledger's convert function) and post-edit once it's in ledger format? It seemed a .csv in LO calc was pretty convenient vs. scrolling through a long text file - any other pointers along the above lines would be most welcome. I tried to search the list for more of this sort of question, so forgive me if I've missed something. Replying with links pointing me in the right direction would be plenty sufficient if this has already been discussed! Thanks! John [1] http://moneydance.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 ledger-cli+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
