On Sun, Mar 18, 2018 at 10:42 PM, jungle boogie <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thus said Vishesh Handa on Sun, 18 Mar 2018 06:22:00 -0700 (PDT)
>>
>>
>> * For now how do people generally store the time? I was planning on
>> storing
>> it as a "Metadata value".
>>
>> I find it especially useful to store the time as it allows me to easily
>> calculate how much money I spent on lunch, and it should allow me to
>> approximately map my transaction data with my location data. It's also
>> useful for trading accounts with many transactions a day.
>>
>
> I think tags is a great way to see the types of transactions:
> https://www.ledger-cli.org/3.0/doc/ledger3.html#Metadata-tags
>
> Lunch hours might vary and you might spend money on something during your
> 'lunch hour', but it might not actually be lunch.

You're quite right.

I wrote some scripts to automatically create transactions from my bank
csvs. This script uses a heuristic of 'approx lunch time + known
restaurant/supermarket' to mark stuff with the tag 'Lunch'.

I then manually review these transactions before adding them to the
main ledger file.

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Vishesh Handa

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