Martin, could you explain a little bit on the logic on making decision on keeping record as "narration" vs "payee" "" ?
What are the advantages / disadvantages. Let say for example if i put all my records as narrations, what is the situation in which i might see the disadvantages to this strategy? Sorry for this detailed questions, i am just trying to understand. Beancount have 2 description fields VS 1 in ledger, so there should be the reason why you added additional field. On Friday, April 27, 2018 at 8:27:07 PM UTC-4, Martin Blais wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 1:53 PM, <mpl...@gmail.com <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Guys, could clarify what are the best practices for usage of payee and >> narration? >> >> Till now i was using only one " " filed, example: >> >> 2018-04-01 * "SIMPLEMOBILE*SERVICES" >> Liabilities:Business:InkBCash -122.60 USD >> Expenses:Business:Phone >> >> 2018-04-02 * "AMAZON MKTPLACE PMTS" >> Liabilities:Personal:Amex -9.56 USD >> Expenses:Personal:Books >> >> which as i understand is interpreted as narration, is it right? Or should >> i included second empty " " to make it interpreted as payee? >> > > Yes. > Note: I'm not a big fan of the syntax I created here, that the positional > bait-and-switch of having the first field mean something different > depending on the number of fields, but the reason for this is that > narration is a more common field, so it makes the syntax more terse. > > Note that you could create a plugin that changes this meaning... e.g. > process all the transactions and if the payee is set to None, move the > narration into it. Would be pretty easy... > > > > > >> >> -- >> 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+...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to bean...@googlegroups.com >> <javascript:>. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/a591b458-3076-45be-9652-0937e165a35f%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/a591b458-3076-45be-9652-0937e165a35f%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- 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 post to this group, send email to beancount@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/eb37f929-204d-4438-af58-8698030291bb%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
