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On Sunday, April 18, 2021 at 10:38:10 AM UTC-7 b...@bben.us wrote: > Thanks for putting this together! > > On Sun, Apr 18, 2021, 10:22 cha...@gmail.com <cha...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Very well put-together. I will say that for me the thing that made it >> easy to stick with Beancount, and plain text accounting in general, is to >> simplify my financial life. >> >> I have one login for my checking/savings/brokerage/retirement/main credit >> card acounts, another couple CCs, my mortgage, and just don't track much >> other stuff (like airline miles). >> >> This simplicity also probably stops me from getting into things that >> wouldn't be good for my financial life, like day trading :) >> >> On Friday, April 16, 2021 at 5:23:16 AM UTC-4 redst...@gmail.com wrote: >> >>> A few years ago, I found Beancount and very quickly understood how well >>> it solved many problems in personal finance software that I'd faced for >>> years prior. Beancount's extensibility was a core attraction for me, and it >>> was clear the software was worth investing in. I started writing automation >>> around it for my needs. Today, a bunch of that automation works >>> surprisingly well, though it's taken effort to get here. >>> >>> I've started writing up some of my Beancount workflows in the hope that >>> it saves others tons of time. The first in this series is ledger updates. >>> I'd previously posted this in a thread somewhere, but am creating a >>> separate thread here, so I can post updates and such. >>> >>> Link to article series: *The Five-Minute Ledger Update >>> <https://reds-rants.netlify.app/personal-finance/the-five-minute-ledger-update/>* >>> >>> Extract follow: >>> * Problem: Updating Your Ledger is a Pain! * >>> >>> *That’s right, updating your ledger with data from your financial >>> institutions is the most laborious and frustrating part of personal >>> finance. It doesn’t need to be so with Beancount, which is the point of >>> this series of articles.* >>> >>> *With a little bit of effort upfront, open source tooling can actually >>> be way better than commercial solutions, and far more flexible and >>> extensible.* >>> >>> *Zero Effort Updates* >>> >>> *The ultimate vision of this set of articles is to have your ledger >>> updated automatically with zero effort from you. How close can we get to >>> that vision? When I started out, each update would take hours of >>> frustrating effort and reconciliation across 60+ accounts at institutions. >>> So much so, I only did updates once in a few months. After understanding >>> why, and developing solutions, I am now at a point where my ledger updates >>> take well less than five minutes.* >>> >>> *Bringing it down to under five minutes was critical to making personal >>> finance productive and fun, because it lets me get away from tinkering, and >>> enables me to focus on the actual finances.* >>> >> -- >> 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. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/af881cfd-58fc-4f81-aa82-0d9135dd4163n%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/af881cfd-58fc-4f81-aa82-0d9135dd4163n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/1a944b17-2a0d-459b-a681-f19fb8bef056n%40googlegroups.com.
