On 2023-01-25, at 18:58, Ihor Radchenko <[email protected]> wrote:
> I meant > > ~ Daily from 2023/01/01 > Expenses:Food ... > Assets:Checking > > Not sure about global "from". Ah, I see. >> Also, daily budget makes /a lot/ of practical sense. If my monthly food >> budget is, say, 600 PLN, it's Jan 25 and I've spent 480 PLN on food, >> I can't immediately tell if I'm overspending or not. For the record, >> I wrote myself a very simple web app which gets data from Ledger and >> displays my spending this month against budget computed /for today/ (so >> in the above case it would tell me that I'm ahead of my budget). > > Yup, I totally agree that it is useful. I have such thing too :) > https://github.com/yantar92/emacs-config/blob/master/system-config.org#continuous-monitoring-of-budget > Displayed right at my status bar. > >> It >> would be cool if Ledger could provide such information, too... > > But isn't it already the case? The balance with budget already provides > this info. What it doesn't do (or at least I can't do it) is to tell me that (sticking to the example above) my food budget /for Jan 25/ is ~484 PLN, so if I already spent 480 PLN, I'm good. Ledger can only tell me that I can still spend 120 PLN /until the end of the month/, which is the same mathematically -- but doing these calculations in your head is not always easy. Best, -- Marcin Borkowski http://mbork.pl -- --- 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/87h6weo0jw.fsf%40mbork.pl.
