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

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