Re: Question on file organization.

2018-04-11 Thread mployby
Martin, yes, i understand on single file. I meant categories. In sample beancount ledger it has following line for banking category: * Banking So i wonder if each Banking account should be separate in it's own category, like this: * Banking Chase ... ... ... * Banking BofA ... ... ... etc

Re: Question on file organization.

2018-04-11 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* mplo...@gmail.com [2018-04-10 18:46]: > Also i have several different sources of income so they also should be > split as well? > * Income 1 > * Income 2 > * Income 3 It depends and is a personal choice. I only split based on the income type, e.g. Income:Employment:Salary

Re: Question on file organization.

2018-04-11 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* mplo...@gmail.com [2018-04-11 11:34]: > So i wonder if each Banking account should be separate in it's own > category, like this: It's up to you how you organize things. In your case: > * Banking Chase > * Banking BofA You could use something like: Assets:Checking:Chase

Re: Question on file organization.

2018-04-11 Thread Jason Chu
I use subsections. My file looks something like this: # Options # Commodities # Equity Accounts # Assets # Canada Banking ## Institution1 ### Account1 ### Account2 ## Institution2 ### Account3 # US Banking ... # Investing ... # Liabilities ## Account4 ## Account5 # Expenses # Employment # Income

Re: Timezones and price fetcher

2018-04-11 Thread Martin Blais
On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 3:23 PM, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Martin Blais [2018-04-10 22:07]: > > Any thoughts welcome. I lean toward (B), but I'm annoyed. > > Maybe I misunderstand the problem, but with option (A) even if I don't > know what timezone they use,

Re: Question on file organization.

2018-04-11 Thread Martin Blais
On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 2:34 PM, wrote: > Martin, yes, i understand on single file. I meant categories. > I see. What I find works best for me is to put the accounts that I update together (from the automated importing scripts) in the same section. My high-level file

Re: Question on file organization.

2018-04-11 Thread mployby
Guys, thank you for all your replies! Now i understand better. Beancount has a great community :) On Tuesday, April 10, 2018 at 9:46:12 PM UTC-4, mpl...@gmail.com wrote: > > I am reading right now recommendations on file organization. ( >

Re: Timezones and price fetcher

2018-04-11 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Martin Blais [2018-04-10 22:07]: > Any thoughts welcome. I lean toward (B), but I'm annoyed. Maybe I misunderstand the problem, but with option (A) even if I don't know what timezone they use, I should get a consistent result if I ask the API for an exchange rate for a