Given the interest in this topic, here is a new article: *Direct Downloads <https://reds-rants.netlify.app/personal-finance/direct-downloads/>*
*> I'm interested in how you do password management for ofxget.* Ah, I nearly forgot about that, thanks for asking :). You will need this patch <https://github.com/csingley/ofxtools/commit/8f69ee1b70f2d4d11c7cfbf2f219144c66cdf586> (see this thread <https://github.com/csingley/ofxtools/issues/110>) until it is released. On Monday, April 19, 2021 at 7:02:36 PM UTC-7 b...@bben.us wrote: > I'm interested in how you do password management for ofxget. > > On Mon, Apr 19, 2021, 17:47 redst...@gmail.com <redst...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Cool, happy to hear this! >> >> I'll write these articles up soon. Meanwhile, here's a preview of both: >> >> My testing framework is rather rudimentary, but works well: it's just a >> few shell scripts to run my importers across every ofx I've ever >> downloaded, and compare the output to reference beancount files. Details, >> limitations, and such soon, in a post. >> >> I use ofxget >> <https://ofxtools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/client.html#locating-ofxget> >> (from ofxtools <https://ofxtools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/>) to automate >> the downloads. I'll post soon on some minimal code I use around it to store >> credentials in `pass`, and such. >> >> Perhaps I'll look into to the possibility of doing a screen GIF of my >> entire workflow so people can compare and see their sticking points in >> truly getting it down to under 5mins. Privacy is the main issue. >> >> On Monday, April 19, 2021 at 3:09:22 PM UTC-7 xen...@gmail.com wrote: >> >>> Keeping up with my own finances was lagging behind until I found this >>> set of posts. They helped me to reduce the overall time it will take to >>> process everything (though I doubt I'll get it down to 5 minutes like you). >>> >>> I'm excited to continue reading about your setup as you publish, but I'm >>> especially interested in the posts about you testing framework and how >>> you're automating downloads. >>> >>> Thanks for writing this! >>> >>> On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 2:27 PM redst...@gmail.com <redst...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Happy it's helpful! Feel free to let me know what else might be helpful >>>> to discuss here or as comments in the articles. >>>> >>>> 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 :) >>>>>> >>>>> -- 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/91fa0001-6364-43e6-94a1-bb5626ee7e12n%40googlegroups.com.
