Marcin Borkowski <[email protected]> writes:
>> I think that ~ Daily alone is ambiguous. When should it start? Infinite
>> years back? You need to specify at least "from" in addition. Otherwise,
>> what ledger does kind of makes sense - budget only when you actually
>> spend. Anything else would be insane.
>
> Well, yes and no -- I took care to supply `--begin` in my Ledger
> invocation.
> By the way, is there a way to supply a starting date /in the Ledger file
> itself/?
I meant
~ Daily from 2023/01/01
Expenses:Food ...
Assets:Checking
Not sure about global "from".
> 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.
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