Re: New to beancount - Question about alternative use - Calorie budget.

2017-03-03 Thread tim . ocallaghan
Can i make a feature request then? That you recognize org-babel markup. e.g. when the source file is .org you can parse this example: # -*- mode: org; mode: beancount; coding: utf-8; -*- #+STARTUP: showall This is an example of my journal These are my options #+BEGIN_SRC beancount option "tit

Re: New to beancount - Question about alternative use - Calorie budget.

2017-03-01 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
Another way I've been toying with to abuse beancount is to keep track of car mileage. I have a dedicated app for that now, but since I input every credit card payment for petrol anyway, having a 'currency conversion' to litres (based on the moving price of petrol) as well as a 'miles travelled' cur

Re: New to beancount - Question about alternative use - Calorie budget.

2017-03-01 Thread Martin Blais
Never done it. The only feature of org-mode I use is the outline/folding capability. On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 6:14 AM, wrote: > Well the clue to using it for calorie budgets is in the name :) > I'll start playing with beancount and see what comes out of it. > > The big plus for me is that i want

Re: New to beancount - Question about alternative use - Calorie budget.

2017-03-01 Thread tim . ocallaghan
Well the clue to using it for calorie budgets is in the name :) I'll start playing with beancount and see what comes out of it. The big plus for me is that i want to use beancount with org mode. I want to embed my beancount transactions into org-journals. do you have any links to examples of thi

Re: New to beancount - Question about alternative use - Calorie budget.

2017-02-28 Thread Martin Blais
Sure, you could abuse it that way. Beancount is a kind of "calculator with buckets," really, and it doesn't really think anything special of its currencies, so nothing prevents you from counting "calories" or otherwise have multiple accounts for them or other things. It's just not going to do anyth

Re: New to beancount - Question about alternative use - Calorie budget.

2017-02-28 Thread tim . ocallaghan
The idea is initially inspired by the idea that Double Entry bookkeeping uses the perspective of the person. I realize a body is more complex, and certainly not a zero sum game, but so are the financial markets. They are treated as black boxes with trends based on transactions etc. I thought

Re: New to beancount - Question about alternative use - Calorie budget.

2017-02-28 Thread Martin Blais
You could but I don't see the point. Your body is more complex than this and doesn't conserve nutrients in a straightforward way. Plus you'd have only a small and fixed amount of categories anyway. You'd be better off using a spreadsheet and processing it with custom scripts using r or pandas. Doub

New to beancount - Question about alternative use - Calorie budget.

2017-02-28 Thread TimOC
Hi, I have a question about beancount. I read the documentation and i had the idea of using beancount to manage a calorie budget. essentially something like: Start with an Initial weight in Fat calories Base metabolic rate. Accounts for Macronutrients such as Fat, Protein, Carbs. I can then