Learn something new every day! I'll have to take "ledger convert" for a spin. :) -----Original Message----- From: "John Wiegley" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, April 11, 2020 20:19 To: "Kent R. Spillner" <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: Thank you, John & co.
>>>>> "KRS" == Kent R Spillner <[email protected]> writes: KRS> Thinking about John's wash sale example, I bet I could KRS> semi-automatically categorize most of my retail transactions by first KRS> extracting a map of Payee=>Account from my existing Ledger data. KRS> Then when I download a CSV file of new transactions from my bank or KRS> credit card company I could look up the vendor in that map and reuse KRS> the corresponding account for the new Ledger entry. KRS> I bet that would automatically cover 80% of my normal spending. e.g. KRS> Shell is always Expenses:Car:Fuel, McDonalds is always KRS> Expenses:Food:Dining Out while Whole Foods is always KRS> Expenses:Food:Groceries, Office Max is always Expenses:Office Supplies, KRS> etc. This is actually how the "ledger convert" command works. :) 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ledger-cli/m27dylsdp6.fsf%40newartisans.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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ledger-cli/1586660391.040826975%40apps.rackspace.com.
