Re: Two questions about budgeting

2023-02-03 Thread John Wiegley
> "MB" == Marcin Borkowski writes: MB> 1. I can do MB> ~ Daily from 2022-01-01 to 2023-01-01 MB> ~ Daily from 2023-01-01 MB> (the intervals are closed-open, like with -b/-e). Right? Yes, intervals should always be closed-open, everywhere. MB> 2. The --invert option does nothing for the

Re: Two questions about budgeting

2023-01-29 Thread Marcin Borkowski
On 2023-01-27, at 22:39, John Wiegley wrote: >> "MB" == Marcin Borkowski writes: > >> 1. Why is there no "budget transaction" for groceries for 2022-01-01? > > Use this: > > ~ Daily from 2022-01-01 Great, thanks! >> 2. I would assume that after these three days my "books" budget

Re: Two questions about budgeting

2023-01-27 Thread John Wiegley
> "MB" == Marcin Borkowski writes: > 1. Why is there no "budget transaction" for groceries for 2022-01-01? Use this: ~ Daily from 2022-01-01 > 2. I would assume that after these three days my "books" budget should >allow me to spend 155 PLN more on books and my "food" budget would

Re: Two questions about budgeting

2023-01-25 Thread Ihor Radchenko
Marcin Borkowski writes: >> 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.

Re: Two questions about budgeting

2023-01-25 Thread Marcin Borkowski
On 2023-01-25, at 21:14, Ihor Radchenko wrote: > Marcin Borkowski 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

Re: Two questions about budgeting

2023-01-25 Thread Ihor Radchenko
Marcin Borkowski writes: >... Still, it looks like > there's a bug with ~Daily~ periodic transactions: if I have a ~Daily~ > ~Food~ expense of 30 PLN, it is only counted towards my budget on days > an actual ~Food~ expense was made. I think that ~ Daily alone is ambiguous. When should it start?

Re: Two questions about budgeting

2023-01-25 Thread Ihor Radchenko
Marcin Borkowski writes: >> I think that ~ Daily alone is ambiguous. When should it start? Infinite >> years back? You need to specify at least "from" in addition. Otherwise, >> what ledger does kind of makes sense - budget only when you actually >> spend. Anything else would be insane. > >

Re: Two questions about budgeting

2023-01-25 Thread Ihor Radchenko
Marcin Borkowski 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

Re: Two questions about budgeting

2023-01-25 Thread Marcin Borkowski
On 2023-01-25, at 18:58, Ihor Radchenko wrote: > I meant > > ~ Daily from 2023/01/01 > Expenses:Food ... > Assets:Checking > > Not sure about global "from". Ah, I see. >> Also, daily budget makes /a lot/ of practical sense. If my monthly food >> budget is, say, 600 PLN, it's Jan 25

Re: Two questions about budgeting

2023-01-25 Thread Marcin Borkowski
On 2023-01-25, at 14:29, Ihor Radchenko wrote: > Marcin Borkowski writes: > >>... Still, it looks like >> there's a bug with ~Daily~ periodic transactions: if I have a ~Daily~ >> ~Food~ expense of 30 PLN, it is only counted towards my budget on days >> an actual ~Food~ expense was made. > > I

Re: Two questions about budgeting

2023-01-24 Thread Marcin Borkowski
On 2023-01-24, at 08:52, Marcin Borkowski wrote: > Hi all, > > as I mentioned previously, I finally decided to finish my booklet about > Ledger, and I really want to show how to do budgeting with it. > > However, I myself cannit grok it. Please help. > > [...] Hi all, I figured out (a few)