Re: Thank you, John & co.

2020-04-11 Thread Kent R. Spillner
Learn something new every day! I'll have to take "ledger convert" for a spin. :) -Original Message- From: "John Wiegley" Sent: Saturday, April 11, 2020 20:19 To: "Kent R. Spillner" Cc: ledger-cli@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Thank you, John &

Re: Thank you, John & co.

2020-04-11 Thread John Wiegley
> "KRS" == Kent R Spillner writes: KRS> Thinking about John's wash sale example, I bet I could KRS> semi-automatically categorize most of my retail transactions by first KRS> extracting a map of Payee=>Account from my existing Ledger data. KRS> Then when I download a CSV file of new transact

Re: Thank you, John & co.

2020-04-11 Thread o1bigtenor
On Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 11:39 AM Kent R. Spillner wrote: > > How complicated are your spending patterns? > > > > Thinking about John's wash sale example, I bet I could semi-automatically > categorize most of my retail transactions by first extracting a map of > Payee=>Account from my existing Le

Re: Thank you, John & co.

2020-04-11 Thread Kent R. Spillner
e Whole Foods is always Expenses:Food:Groceries, Office Max is always Expenses:Office Supplies, etc. -Original Message- From: "o1bigtenor" Sent: Saturday, April 11, 2020 07:26 To: "o1bigtenor" , ledger-cli@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Thank you, John & co.

Re: Thank you, John & co.

2020-04-11 Thread o1bigtenor
On Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 12:07 AM John Wiegley wrote: > > > "o" == o1bigtenor writes: > > o> When I look at a cashier's slip I can figure out what accounts things go > o> into - - - dunno how you'd be able to automate all of that - - - - well > o> maybe but that would mean having a complete c

Re: Thank you, John & co.

2020-04-11 Thread psionl0
I would like to add my appreciation to this thread as well. I wish Ledger had been around when I was teaching bookkeeping. It takes all of the gobbledygook out of the subject and makes the subject crystal clear. I don't mind the lack of automation in Ledger. Other bookkeeping packages only teac

Re: Thank you, John & co.

2020-04-10 Thread John Wiegley
> "o" == o1bigtenor writes: o> When I look at a cashier's slip I can figure out what accounts things go o> into - - - dunno how you'd be able to automate all of that - - - - well o> maybe but that would mean having a complete copy of all the UAN and EAN (I o> think that is what the US and th

Re: Thank you, John & co.

2020-04-10 Thread o1bigtenor
On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 12:27 PM John Wiegley wrote: > > > "o" == o1bigtenor writes: > > o> Not sure I would go as far as to say I find the process 'enjoyable' - - - - > o> its still tedious - - - - if only there were some way to truly automate the > o> process! > > I'm working on a Haskell

Re: Thank you, John & co.

2020-04-10 Thread John Wiegley
> "o" == o1bigtenor writes: o> Not sure I would go as far as to say I find the process 'enjoyable' - - - - o> its still tedious - - - - if only there were some way to truly automate the o> process! I'm working on a Haskell project right now that fully automates downloading data from my brok

Re: Thank you, John & co.

2020-04-10 Thread o1bigtenor
On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 1:30 AM Jimi Damon wrote: > > +100 > > Completely agree with all the sentiments on here. I've hated accounting over > the years but then I realized it was because I wasn't using something like > ledger, and now I'm slowly improving in accounting and I enjoy it. > Agreed

Re: Thank you, John & co.

2020-04-09 Thread Jimi Damon
+100 Completely agree with all the sentiments on here. I've hated accounting over the years but then I realized it was because I wasn't using something like ledger, and now I'm slowly improving in accounting and I enjoy it. On 3/2/20 7:18 PM, Kyle Spaans wrote: > +100 more! > > A couple of year

Re: Thank you, John & co.

2020-03-02 Thread Kyle Spaans
+100 more! A couple of years ago Ledger got me into accounting and I’ve been loving using it to track every penny (even now that the penny is phased out) ever since! On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 1:31 PM Scott Carpenter wrote: > +100 > > I love ledger! And in tinkering with my own ledger-related stuf

Re: Thank you, John & co.

2020-02-27 Thread Scott Carpenter
+100 I love ledger! And in tinkering with my own ledger-related stuff in python. On Wednesday, February 26, 2020 at 1:10:00 PM UTC-6, Kent Spillner wrote: > > Howdy- > > I just wanted to take a minute to thank John and everyone else who > contributes to Ledger's development. I don't know anythin

Re: Thank you, John & co.

2020-02-26 Thread John Wiegley
> "KRS" == Kent R Spillner writes: > I just wanted to take a minute to thank John and everyone else who > contributes to Ledger's development. I don't know anything about accounting, > never really got into personal finance, etc. My wife recently started her > own business and asked me to hel

Thank you, John & co.

2020-02-26 Thread Kent R. Spillner
Howdy- I just wanted to take a minute to thank John and everyone else who contributes to Ledger's development. I don't know anything about accounting, never really got into personal finance, etc. My wife recently started her own business and asked me to help manage her books. I randomly stumble