Hi all,
I was thinking of creating a separate tool for translating specially formatted
Org-mode files into Ledger files. For example, this entry:
2023-01-10 Adobe Acrobat Pro
; ID: 076497DC-45F7-43EC-BFDA-00177EFC3C0D
; CREATED: [2023-01-25 Wed 21:40]
Expenses:Administrative $33.59
Equity:Admin:Somebody
Would be processed from this Org-mode entry:
* [2023-01-10 Tue] Adobe Acrobat Pro
| Expenses:Administrative | $33.59 |
| Equity:Admin:Somebody | |
:PROPERTIES:
:ID: 076497DC-45F7-43EC-BFDA-00177EFC3C0D
:CREATED: [2023-01-25 Wed 21:40]
:END:
Now, why might you want to record Ledger entry in Org-mode? Because you get
these added benefits:
- Org-mode's hierarchical organization, narrowing, searching, filtering
- Org-mode tags become Ledger tags for the whole transaction
- Org-mode properties become Ledger metadata for the whole transaction
- You can use Org-attach to attach files to entries
- You can use cross-linking to jump between entries
- You can use the agenda and calendar to review entries on given dates
There's already a Haskell library for parsing Org-mode files, so I was
thinking that building this as a UNIX tool shouldn't be but a few days work.
It would be run as follows:
org2ledger ledger.org | ledger -f - reg
John
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