On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 11:30 PM, Michael Norrish <michael.norr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> One way to do two-stage cheques would be something like > > 2016/1/25 * My Favourite Shop > Expenses:Groceries $100 > Liabilities:Unprocessed Checks > > 2016/1/31 * Check clearing > Liabilities:Unprocessed Checks $100 > Assets:Checking Account > > You could assuredly add metadata to link the two transactions to be wrt > some check #. > Yes, and I'm claiming that this linkage can probably be done by the computer. > > Michael > > > On 4 Feb 2016, at 15:26, John Hendy <jw.he...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 10:07 PM, Martin Blais <bl...@furius.ca> wrote: > >> On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 10:48 PM, John Hendy <jw.he...@gmail.com> 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 <jw.h...@gmail.com> 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 ledger-cli+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Beancount" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to beancount+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to beanco...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/A57D9595-9C57-4D73-9276-86815B04924F%40gmail.com > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- --- 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.
