On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 10:07 PM, Martin Blais <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 10:48 PM, John Hendy <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Monday, February 1, 2016 at 10:41:26 PM UTC-6, Martin Blais wrote: >>> >>> On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 1:13 PM, John Hendy <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> Greetings, >>>>
[snip] >> >> >> Huh. Yes, I'll definitely have to look into the emacs mode. I assumed once >> it was in ledger format it would be *a lot* harder to navigate around vs. >> just doing it while it's already in a spreadsheet format. > > > Definitely not, text is there for your pleasure. You typically organize your > Ledger input file in the order that makes the most sense for you (minus some > constraints: Ledger will report the transactions in the order they appear in > the file and the balance assertions are computed as such. Beancount sorts > everything by date so order doesn't matter). So, using the demo.ledger file as an example, if I run `convert` on my downloaded bank file, I'm going to get something like this: 2010/12/01 * Checking balance Expenses:Unknown $1,000.00 Equity:Unknown 2010/12/20 * Organic Co-op Expenses:Unknown $ 37.50 ; [=2011/01/01] Equity:Unknown $ -225.00 2011/01/02 Grocery Store Expenses:Unknown $ 65.00 Equity:Unknown Would you just go through that and manually change all of those categories in ledger-mode? I still like starting from the bank .csv, as it's got transaction ids and the amounts already in there... all I need to do is add categories. It appears that `convert` defaults to the above. As this is the primary thing of interest to me, I was sort of surprised that ledger mode offered no pop-up minibuffer to edit the account, at least from perusing the manual page. I only see options for reconciling, reports, changing an amount, etc. In any case, `convert` got most of my stuff into ledger format and ledger-mode at least recognizes the blocks, so I'll likely just start from there. I still have *a lot* more reading to do... for example: - I noticed in the demo file, the co-op (which I snipped above) purchases were in one chunk vs. treated as separate transactions. I wouldn't default to this and am guessing it's just a preference thing (compared to having one transaction per payment)? - I still wrestle with deposits and withdrawals. Am I the payee? Is my bank? Does it matter as long as some assets category goes positive and another negative? - I'd love tracking checks *as we write them* vs. just waiting for them to appear. This used to really annoy me in Moneydance, as I'd go through the checkbook once a month to see what was written but not come through. Then I'd have to have these little note entries along the way to remind me what the total of uncashed checks were to-date so that the sums added up. I bet there was a better way in Moneydance I'd missed, and I'm positive there's one in ledger/beancount. Anyway, still taking it slow but feel like I'm starting to get to a usable noob state. Thanks, John -- --- 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.
