Re: ledger importer?

On 2025-02-23 15:01, Simon Michael wrote: Alen, if you can get your ledger journal into hledger, recent hledger will do a pretty good job of converting it to a valid beancount journal. Eg, perhaps: ledger print | hledger -f- -I print -o foo.beancount I forget what specific problems I hit with

Re: ledger importer?

Alen, if you can get your ledger journal into hledger, recent hledger will do a pretty good job of converting it to a valid beancount journal. Eg, perhaps: ledger print | hledger -f- -I print -o foo.beancount I forget what specific problems I hit with ledger2beancount. But generally, it's no

Re: Watch out for Copilot

Thanks for this thread; I have cc'd to https://forum.plaintextaccounting.org/t/watch-out-for-copilot/418 -- 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

Re: installation of current version of Beancount..?

On 2024-09-30 08:29, Simon Michael wrote: And as the parent mentioned, be warned, if you want to stay with v3 don't pip install fava it will downgrade your beancount to v2 without prompting. That'll change soon I'm sure. And (mentioned on this list some time ago), you can avoi

PTA feature matrix

G'day all ! I was updating my hledger/Ledger differences doc recently and ended up adding Beancount, linkifying everything, and moving it to pta.o: https://plaintextaccounting.org/#feature-matrix You might find it useful as a quick reference/overview; I do. Corrections welcome. Best, -Simon

Re: installation of current version of Beancount..?

On 2024-09-30 08:29, Simon Michael wrote: On 2024-09-27 05:35, Oscar & Alejandra wrote: I think the short answer is Adding to this... I went through the process the other day, and I can confirm the GSX (getting started experience) is a mess. (No offense.) Here's what I figured out

Re: installation of current version of Beancount..?

On 2024-09-27 05:35, Oscar & Alejandra wrote: I think the short answer is Adding to this... I went through the process the other day, and I can confirm the GSX (getting started experience) is a mess. (No offense.) Here's what I figured out, in case it helps others confused like I was: v3 wa

Re: Cost basis adjustment for average cost booking

On 2024-02-15 06:29, fin wrote: In terms of projects like beancount it is well worth having the language defined and then using the right tools to generate the parser for the language and then you can hang the rest of your code off that. I don't know what Rust might have in terms of those kinds

Re: Cryptocurrencies transactions that are exchanges (cost basis)

On 2024-03-19 08:37, Eric Altendorf wrote: Hmm, i guess my example doesn't include any account transfers. My understanding is cost bases are attached to lots which are tracked in accounts.  So if you have 100 ETH in account A and 100 ETH in account B, and you sell or transfer from Account A, i

Re: thank you beancounters! :)

On 2024-03-07 16:25, fin wrote: since 1967 and still going. Very impressive! That seems likely the PTA account longevity record holder! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Beancount" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails fr

Re: Balance report and other common reports in v3?

On 2024-03-26 09:33, Chary Chary wrote: This is because unrealized gains are not taken into account. This seems to be in general unresolved issue with all the major PTA tools (e.g. see this discussion

Re: thank you beancounters! :)

That's great, congrats! If you feel like sharing, I wonder how long running. -- 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.

Re: [hledger] ANN: forum.plaintextaccounting.org

PS I should be clear, signup is not required: anyone can read or search for answers there. Signing up lets you post/edit/like, read and post by email, get notifications, etc. On Thu, Mar 7, 2024, at 11:40, Simon Michael wrote: > Ha! Good one! 🤣 > > Here is the link

Re: [hledger] ANN: forum.plaintextaccounting.org

, across projects. There's also RSS feeds. Best -Simon On Thu, Mar 7, 2024, at 11:26, Simon Michael wrote: > G'day all ! > > I set up a discourse forum for general PTA-related discussions. > > Be sure to read the pinned "Welcome..." and "A

ANN: forum.plaintextaccounting.org

G'day all ! I set up a discourse forum for general PTA-related discussions. Be sure to read the pinned "Welcome..." and "A trial of Discourse..." posts for more background and motivation. In short, I am not comfortable with having our collective knowledge locked in on Reddit, I'm also ready fo

ANN: PTA wiki merged with site

G'day all, Two years ago I announced the plaintextaccounting wiki as a complement to plaintextaccounting.org : > https://github.com/plaintextaccounting/plaintextaccounting/wiki - git repo > https://wiki.plaintextaccounting.org

Re: ANN: PTA wiki

On 4/12/22 07:59, redst...@gmail.com wrote: I added the recent post about ISIN. I also added a link to my five-minute ledger update article series. I don't know whether including external links is in line with your philosophy for the wiki. Feel free to remove it if it isn't. Reminds me, hledg

Re: ANN: PTA wiki

On 4/10/22 14:30, redst...@gmail.com wrote: Very helpful effort, thanks Simon! Question: how does one contribute to the wiki? With a quick look, all I could find was a pointer to a chat. Is that by design?

Re: Google groups spam

On 2/23/22 6:17 PM, Martin Blais wrote: I've changed it from Great! I think that will solve the problem. FYI, I think moderating new member posts is unnecessary for now (until you get spammers actually joining the list); you could reduce a bit of moderation work by leaving it off. -- You r

Re: Google groups spam

On 2/23/22 6:02 PM, Simon Michael wrote: On 2/23/22 3:45 PM, Martin Blais wrote: On Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 8:07 PM Jason Chu mailto:xen...@gmail.com>> wrote: I counted 15 in my spam folder, inbox, and trash in that same time period. https://groups.google.com/g/beanc

Re: Google groups spam

On 2/23/22 3:45 PM, Martin Blais wrote: On Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 8:07 PM Jason Chu > wrote: I counted 15 in my spam folder, inbox, and trash in that same time period. https://groups.google.com/g/beancount/c/L2kishqjKbA

Re: Google groups spam

On 2/23/22 4:49 AM, Alan H wrote: I'm also ok with the list only being open to subscribers (for posting) I'm not sure that would reduce the participation significantly and it would likely dent the spam. Thoughts? You don't have to reject non-subscribers' messages entirely; you can have them

Re: Google groups spam

On 2/22/22 6:00 PM, Simon Michael wrote: On 2/22/22 12:15 PM, Daniele Nicolodi wrote: On 22/02/2022 23:01, Simon Michael wrote: On 2/21/22 12:12 PM, redst...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Martin or anyone else with privileges: deleting the spam in the top 20 threads would be awesome. Unless I'm re

Re: Google groups spam

On 2/22/22 12:15 PM, Daniele Nicolodi wrote: On 22/02/2022 23:01, Simon Michael wrote: On 2/21/22 12:12 PM, redst...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Martin or anyone else with privileges: deleting the spam in the top 20 threads would be awesome. Unless I'm reading it wrong and Berlusconi has indeed

Re: Google groups spam

On 2/21/22 12:12 PM, redst...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Martin or anyone else with privileges: deleting the spam in the top 20 threads would be awesome. Unless I'm reading it wrong and Berlusconi has indeed taken up plain text accounting. I have been catching up on discussion here. I read via NNTP (

ANN: PTA wiki

Good day friends! Some time ago I enabled the Github wiki attached to https://plaintextaccounting.org . More recently we had some discussion in the #plaintextaccounting matrix/IRC chat about how to best use it, with a rough consensus to start by collecting and

Re: Appropriate method to work Inventories

On 9/12/21 11:37 PM, Toby wrote: The above seems to fix the valuation problem (commodities don't get revalued) but its a little complicated. Is there any guides on how to work with commodities? You might also be interested in this recent how-to, showing inventory tracking without @/{} : htt

Re: Siddhant Goel's eBook features Beancount

Nice site. First commercial PTA book ? Thanks for the links! -- 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 d

plain text accounting support on repl.it ?

https://repl.it/language-requests/p/hledger-ledger-beancount : > These are plain text accounting tools (the big ones from > https://plaintextaccounting.org ). > They are popular but would greatly benefit from easier ways to share and > collaborate on examples and

Accounting For Dragons

I'll just leave this here. http://podcastle.org/2009/10/09/pc-miniature-38-accounting-for-dragons/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Beancount" group. To unsubscribe from this

Re: Questions about ledger to beancount

On 3/29/18 4:02 PM, Martin Michlmayr wrote: 6) Has anyone done a table comparing ledger and beancount syntax, and if not, would that be of interest? Hi Martin, I'd be interested in anything you come up with. I made http://plaintextaccounting.org/quickref a while back. Since then I thought it

Re: Beancount 2.0.0

On 3/28/18 2:55 AM, Martin Blais wrote: Released 2.0.0. Today we're starting versioning Beancount. Many people have been waiting for this in order to manage their dependencies (e.g. Fava users). Congrats! -Simon -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "B

Re: Loosely tracking shared expenses between partners

Congrats, Martin!! Gonna present him with his ledger on his 18th birthday ? (Yikes :-) -- 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...@google

Re: Intro documentation

On 1/8/17 2:26 PM, Martin Blais wrote: I have just completed and opened the introduction to the double-entry method doc. Here: https://furius.ca/beancount/doc/intro Really nice, thanks for this Martin! Comments added, tweeted, added to plaintextaccounting.org. -- You received this message b

Re: beancount OFX; investment inventory

Interesting discussion. hledger is the least sophisticated of the three when it comes to trading, currently. Beancount seems to be leading the way here. One of these days I hope to understand better what y'all are talking about here. On 1/5/17 9:18 PM, Martin Blais wrote: The TL;DR is that L

Re: plugin proposal - file_ordering

On 11/21/16 1:50 AM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: But *if* you adopt the style of linear, date-ordered Beancount file(s), then this plugin might help you in detecting errors. The typical error that I'm successful avoiding with this plugin is copy-pasting an old transaction as a more recent one, but

Re: beancount.el vs emacs keybinding conventions

Not sure if you noticed: at least some of the org functions only work when point is on an org node. On 11/20/16 11:57 AM, Martin Blais wrote: Just tried it myself, inspired by this excitement; but... orgstruct-mode does not appear to operate similarly to org-mode. I cannot use the regular bind

Re: New to ledger - how to ease in from gnucash?

On 11/11/16 9:32 AM, yegle wrote: On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 8:03 AM, Simon Michael wrote: http://plaintextaccounting.org/quickref The syntax for beancount txn should be DATE txn [["PAYEE"] "DESCRIPTION"] ACCOUNTAMOUNT ACCOUNT[AMOUNT] Thanks! I have updat

Re: New to ledger - how to ease in from gnucash?

On 11/10/16 11:54 PM, ngoonee.t...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday, November 11, 2016 at 2:11:39 AM UTC+8, John Wiegley wrote: You could certainly use Ledger 2 for a one-time export of your GnuCash data. Then you can use any of the three tools after that. Thanks, that'd be one-way though. I supp

Fwd: Ledger Hackathon Nov 12-13

And you, Beancounters.. just getting the word out. > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Simon Michael > Subject: Fwd: Re: Ledger Hackathon Nov 12-13 > Date: November 11, 2016 at 7:50:17 AM PST > To: hled...@googlegroups.com > Reply-To: hled...@googlegroups.com > &g

Re: should decimal point/digit group style be commodity-specific ?

16, at 4:59 PM, John Wiegley wrote: > >>>>>> "SM" == Simon Michael writes: > > SM> We could simplify this and say decimal point and digit group style are the > SM> same across all commodities, perhaps reducing confusion and hassle, cf > SM>

should decimal point/digit group style be commodity-specific ?

In hledger, each commodity/currency has its own style of decimal point and digit grouping. (http://hledger.org/manual.html#amounts , http://hledger.org/manual.html#commodity-directive ).) We could simpl

Re: Command to export transactions to csv

hledger does this - one row per posting, with the common transaction fields repeated in each, and a transaction id field so you can re-group them into transactions. On 8/15/16 6:08 AM, Alex Johnstone wrote: I've used other finance programs and for "split transactions" they just output each ac

Re: ledger-autosync: CSV support

On 8/7/16 10:17 AM, Erik Hetzner wrote: That does seem a lot simpler than the method ledger-autosync uses. On the other hand it ties the system to ensuring that file ordering does not change. Yes, it's for that case. For more randomly changing data, checksums would be more important. Would

Re: How to do cross account budgets with beancount?

On 6/20/16 2:37 PM, victor.poug...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! I'm new to beancount, and accounting in general actually. I'm wondering what's the proper way to handle the following scenario. I want to budget any income every time it comes in. As a simplified example, let's say I get 2000 EUR, I want to

Re: Equity:Earnings:Current/Previous and "Closing the year"

On 3/12/16 2:26 PM, Martin Blais wrote: Clear is simple: for each balance of the income and expenses accounts, insert a transaction that returns this balance to zero. https://bitbucket.org/blais/beancount/src/adb5510d49c21a13d34082d40d9bfa6b5f39e55b/src/python/beancount/ops/summarize.py?at=defau

Re: Reconciling credit card statements

On 5/8/16 9:42 PM, Martin Blais wrote: One day the whole issue of posting precise dates for each side of a transaction will be handled elegantly. I haven't cared too much myself yet, but I see so much interest for it from many people. Yes, every newcomer runs into this at some point. The elegan

Re: Achievement unlocked.

Congrats! Sounds good. On 5/8/16 3:25 PM, Martin Blais wrote: I managed to implement automatic, working FIFO and LIFO booking methods on my gigantic personal file! This means that for the very first time I'm able to process my personal ledger entirely with the new code, and so I'll begin using t