A better name
We had been traveling, so I had several transactions with new payees. Most of them were self explanatory. For example, if you eat at “Lake Shnonka Fish Fry” and.
hledger Thanksgiving
I am posting this on Thanksgiving Day. Not specifically because it’s Thanksgiving, but because Thursday is the day I post. Except for last week, when there was a technical.
More on speeding data entry
I generally enter my hledger data using a tool such as add or iadd. Yes, it would almost certainly be faster to import CSV files, but for the most.
Emacs revert buffer stops working
One handy Emacs setting that has worked well for me is automatic buffer reversion. Specifically, it is inovoked by the following line that I have in my init file:.
hledger happiness
The reason to use hledger or similar program is that it should give you some benefit. For me there are both large and small benefits to using hledger, and.
Collecting old personal finance books
Last week I mentioned the book The Richest Man in Babylon. Specifically, the stories in it painted a picture of a future life, one that benefited from good financial.
Using emotions to work for you instead of against you
Last week I wrote about the idea that every financial decision is an emotional one. If that’s true, then a good question is how do you use emotions to.
Emotions in financial decision making
A book on personal finance that I read several years ago had a sentence similar to the following one: “All financial decisions are emotional.” My first reaction was that.
Decluttering with hledger
While I like the idea of a clutter-free life, it’s constant work for me to make even minor victories in the war on clutter. One way that helps for.
Hledger iadd makes crossing monthly boundaries easier
As I have mentioned in the past, I regularly use hledger “iadd” to add new transactions. One alternative, hledger “add” works well enough, but “iadd” sometimes works slightly better..