After almost two months, I’ve finished first version of #BeanBeaver : it parses grocery receipts into #Beancount records.
https://github.com/Endle/beanbeaver
I hope I’m not the only person who cares about a grocery-by-item breakdown 🦫
Vibe Coding 了一个扫描 Receipt 生成 #beancount 的工具，现在雏形跑起来了，感觉这开发效率有点快得可怕了
It's possible in beancount to transact a different currency in an account defined for a particular currency, but then for each transaction you decide a means of converting one currency into another. But for income and expense accounts that's not really the way to go.
This function is more […]
Properly organised accounts must evolve. Since I've been in #SouthAfrica for many years, my beancount accounts are defined like this:
2009-05-05 open Expenses:Groceries ZAR
Date, action, account name, currency.
Now I'm moving to #Sweden, and in a few days I need to start an account called […]
I think I'm giving up at keeping track of my money with Beancount, adding transactions to it is painful, so I always end up procastinating it, and after a couple months of procastination figuring everything out is pretty much impossible...
Maybe I should make my own simpler but quicker tool […]
Today, for the first time in several years of reading, I seem to be getting the hang of #plaintextaccounting 1]. Whenever I have read the #beancount 2] docs in the past, I have found the concept incredibly difficult to understand. However, after stumbling across the [#Hibiscus project [3], with […]
Going through #beancount's documentation and being overwhelmed when it's supposed to be the "easier" of the #plaintextaccounting tools (compared to #ledger) makes me feel a lot of trepidation for trying to set this up.
Almost all the documentation for these tools seems to assume you already […]
Having way more fun than expected writing bank importers for #beancount. Can't wait to get things flowing seamlessly enough to actually keep up with my finances on a monthly basis instead of scrambling at the end of every year
#plaintextaccounting
