Tracking billable and non-billable project hours using beancount

2024-10-22 Thread Peter
Hi there, up until now I used beancount for my personal finances. I might switch careers and start freelancing. I'm currently evaluating how to manage my time tracking. Beancount seems like a good pick as it is flexible and the concept of lots (or rather using time as a commodity) lets you tra

Re: Tracking billable and non-billable project hours using beancount

2024-10-22 Thread google . nospam
Hello Peter, I only track billable hours, but I think this can also work for non-billable hours. I have defined a currency 'hour' with value of 0 euros. So a transaction for an outgoing invoice looks like (I use Dutch, I hope I translate it well for this message): Revenue:Hours:Billable   

Wrote a plain-text budgeting tool with beancount converter (minibudget v0.1)

2024-10-22 Thread Frank Davies
I've been using beancount for my personal finances for about 6 months, and will probably start to use it for business finances in the future. But I wanted a budgeting tool that fit in with the plain-text paradigm, and beancount has no native budgeting feature. I used a spreadsheet for a while b

Re: Wrote a plain-text budgeting tool with beancount converter (minibudget v0.1)

2024-10-22 Thread Martin Blais
Added to contrib list. Thanks for sharing Frank On Tue, Oct 22, 2024 at 10:25 AM Frank Davies wrote: > I've been using beancount for my personal finances for about 6 months, and > will probably start to use it for business finances in the future. > > But I wanted a budgeting tool that fit in wi