*Background* I've been using beancount for a few years now. I just have a couple credits cards and a bank account, nothing especially complex, but I feel secure knowing I have a registry of where all my money has gone. Also the process of getting transactions into beancount is my check on spending, letting me notice anything suspicious.
However, its just way too labor intensive. I already use beancount-import, but still get bogged down in hundreds of $2.90 subway payments, the grocery store, and sandwiches from the same handful of places. *What I'm Looking For* I need a less time-consuming workflow. I discovered Red's five minute ledger, and agree completely with the philosophy. However I think I need a way to separate transactions from any given account into two separate streams. To better illustrate, this is my ideal pipeline: 1. Download transactions manually or automatically where possible (csv and ofx) 2. Run code that has a set of predefined expense category rules (e.g. amazon automatically to a zero-sum category, grocery store below certain dollar value) 3. Separate the categorized transactions and pass the remaining ones to beancount-import 4. Write everything to the ledger like normal I haven't found any examples of branching the transaction pipeline like this, so my question is whether its even plausible within the framework of beancount importers. My back up plan is to write a more or less hardcoded script that will do it all, but I'm hoping for a more flexible approach! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Beancount" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beancount+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/1d463106-57c7-447c-b374-087ab60943ddn%40googlegroups.com.
