Re: [O] simple expense tracking with org

2014-09-20 Thread Charles Millar
Thorsten Jolitz wrote: torys.ander...@gmail.com (Tory S. Anderson) writes: Could you give a few snippets of examples -- what the org files with tags look like, what the result looks like? I'm interested because I also use Org to do my budgeting and finances. You two know about ledger-cli, emac

Re: [O] simple expense tracking with org

2014-09-20 Thread Eike
Sure. An "expense item" is a headline with a property drawer that has a property where the key is some currency code (other headlines are ignored). Then tags can be applied to this headline. A category is either specified via CATEGORY property or the parent headline is used (if present). The org

Re: [O] simple expense tracking with org

2014-09-20 Thread Thorsten Jolitz
torys.ander...@gmail.com (Tory S. Anderson) writes: > Could you give a few snippets of examples -- what the org files with > tags look like, what the result looks like? I'm interested because I > also use Org to do my budgeting and finances. You two know about ledger-cli, emacs ledger-mode, and o

Re: [O] simple expense tracking with org

2014-09-20 Thread Tory S. Anderson
Could you give a few snippets of examples -- what the org files with tags look like, what the result looks like? I'm interested because I also use Org to do my budgeting and finances. Eike writes: > Hello there, > > I thought to share a little elisp thingy that I wrote to track my > expenses

[O] simple expense tracking with org

2014-09-20 Thread Eike
Hello there, I thought to share a little elisp thingy that I wrote to track my expenses with org. I use the org's capture mechanism to add expense items to some files and the following code only searches through all these files and creates summaries of all found expenses. It is possible to search