When to track additional spending categories
Last week I wrote about what size categories to use for expenses in PTA. The basic idea was a general principal of simpler categories. Why? For one reason, simpler.
How big (or small) should your spending categories be?
First, even if you had only one spending category, let’s call it “expenses,” you still are far ahead of most people if you know what your total expenses are..
Simple but important
Two weeks ago, I wrote about something that was so very difficult to do. Specifically, it was to know the actual price of something if it was purchased under.
First look at tldr pages in hledger
One of the advantages of my recent upgrade to hledger version 1.34 is that I now have access to the tldr pages. I had delayed upgrading as I was.
Have member rewards obscured cost comparison?
A great advantage of using plaintext accounting is to track expenses. Why track expenses? One reason is so that you can get the maximum return for the money you.
Playing games with hledger?
Some months ago after playing a boardgame, I wondered if I could have used hledger to track the points in the game. I don’t mean that using hledger would.
One favorite hledger shortcut
As I work on the command line, I like to find shortcuts for typing. Why type something longer when something shorter will work equally well? One of my favorites.
More about “iadd”
I found another helpful way that “iadd” works. Here is how it works: if you add a transaction with a first-time payee, “iadd” defaults to the accounts of the.
What is the difference between “iadd” and “add”?
Now that I have both “iadd” and “add” working to enter my transactions interactively (see last week’s post for details), I can comment on some differences between between the.
A short wait for iadd
Last week I posted my non-success in terms of installing iadd (aka hledger-iadd) on my M1 Mac. After mentioning this on Element, I quickly received the answer that worked.