Heheh, glad to hear, and yes, same here: there are several accounts which are importer-unfriendly, but only need to be updated once in several months. Thanks for the feedback!
On Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 2:46:33 PM UTC-7 [email protected] wrote: > This is a nice change that I almost suggested when I first started using > needs-update. Some accounts (retirement) only update quarterly, some update > monthly (rarely used transaction accounts), and some need updates every 2-3 > days (cash) ... and yet others I really only need every 6-12 months (like > that savings account in another country I never use). > > Thanks for reading my mind! > > On Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 4:37:59 PM UTC+9:30 Red S wrote: > >> bean-download needs-update now accepts per-account metadata so you can >> specify how frequently you desire each account to be updated. If the >> metadata needs_update_days exists for an account, that will be used >> instead of the global configuration above, so you can specify: >> 2024-01-01 open Assets:MyBank USD needs_update_days: 90 2025-01-01 open >> Assets:AnotherBankAccount USD needs_update_days: 15 >> >> More here >> <https://reds-rants.netlify.app/personal-finance/how-up-to-date-are-my-accounts/> >> . >> >> >> >> On Monday, August 28, 2023 at 9:39:21 PM UTC-7 Red S wrote: >> >>> It is helpful to know what accounts you haven’t updated in a while in >>> your journal. bean-download is a downloader >>> <https://reds-rants.netlify.app/personal-finance/direct-downloads/> >>> that ships with beancount-reds-importers >>> <https://github.com/redstreet/beancount_reds_importers>. It now has a >>> new feature: bean-download needs-update shows a list of accounts >>> needing updates, and the date of the last update (which is defined as the >>> date of the last balance assertion on the account). >>> >>> Installation: pip3 install beancount-reds-importers. >>> >>> You can filter accounts via its configuration. It handles commodity leaf >>> accounts. >>> >>> *Full article is here >>> <https://reds-rants.netlify.app/personal-finance/how-up-to-date-are-my-accounts/>.* >>> >>> Example output: >>> $ bean-download needs-update Last Updated Account -------------- >>> --------------------------------------------------------- 2023-07-22 >>> Assets:Banks:MainOne 2023-02-05 >>> Assets:Gift-Cards-and-Credits:Amazon-com-Gift-Cards >>> >>> >> -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/9bc87209-e804-4230-8cd6-86b13cf8aed2n%40googlegroups.com.
