On 2023-01-25, at 21:14, Ihor Radchenko <[email protected]> wrote:

> Marcin Borkowski <[email protected]> writes:
>
>>> 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.
>
> I see. Why don't just use daily budget then?
> The daily budget gets applied progressively, and I know how much I can
> spend each day.

That's what I wanted to do.  But since the daily budget apparently does
not kick in on days when I spent nothing on e.g. food, this is of little
use for me...  If my daily budget is 20 PLN and I spend nothing on
a particular day, I expect to be "allowed" to spend 40 PLN on the next
day.

Best,

-- 
Marcin Borkowski
http://mbork.pl

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