I use a little shell script to add my fortnightly salary payment to ledger
with the aid of 'ledger xact' (requires that your system has the gnu
version of the date command). It will figure out the last time it was run
and generate enough transactions to get up to date.
TODAY=$(date '+%s')
I don't understand how you guys are using this.
What's the use case?
My process goes like this:
- I download an OFX or CSV file from my checking account.
- I extract transactions from the downloaded file (using a script, see
LedgerHub).
- When I see a salary payment, I move the incomplete,
I forecast the next two weeks. As the transactions are realized I
edit the amount on the predicted transaction, which is usually very
close. I have a CSV importer that handles the rest. The real reason
is that I can predict how much I can spend on the extras. I don't
budget everything, I have
On 7/10/14 9:21 AM, Martin Blais wrote:
Forecasting is the only use case there that makes sense to me so far.
Do you delete the forecast entries when they become realized?
Are there any non-forecast use cases?
In my case, the realized and the forecast are the same, as I have
committed $n /
I'm in the process of transitioning from Gnucash to Ledger (as keeping
Gnucash working consistently on MacOS is challenging, despite the best
efforts of the MacPorts folks).
I will miss Gnucash's support for scheduled transactions, though, if I
can't figure out a good way to do this in Ledger.
