I have a fairly substantial accumulation of Ledger data going back to 2002. I rely on it for budgeting (it was invaluable when I was figuring out if I could afford to retire), for reconciling bank and credit card account statements, and -- crucially -- for keeping track of revenue and expenses for my wife's small business, for tax filing purposes. It has been working well for me, and occasionally over the years I have invested some effort in writing helper scripts where needed.
So I was thinking that everything was all fine. Except recently it dawned on me that I'm not going to live forever. My (young) wife will likely survive me, and then she'll need to do something to cope with finances that I've been taking care of all these years. Her level of comfort with using computers is at the level of using web apps (e.g., GMail, Google Docs and Sheets, though currently at a quite basic level). I don't think she'll be persuaded to learn how to edit a plain text file and run commands from a Unix shell; to say nothing of learning how to wield Ledger commands and options themselves. Or, at least, she'll not want to continue to do things that way forever. Maybe I could set up some spreadsheets for tracking of her business finances? Though that might be overly simplistic. Or maybe she could use something like Quicken? How can I set things up to ease that transition, especially when it (hopefully) won't happen for still quite a few more years now? -- --- 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 visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ledger-cli/137af832-3dc2-4ef3-87eb-4839c9330e64n%40googlegroups.com.
