Accounting before hledger
People have been doing accounting for a long time, way before hledger was created. I was reminded of this when visiting a museum this summer. One of the displays.
Atomic hledger habits
The book Atomic Habits recently caught my interest. As I learned about its central ideas, I started wondering how they could be applied to hledger. Here are three ways:.
hledger 1.31 now available, using “not,” awk part 2, podcast of the week
hledger version 1.31 now available I saw the recent announcement for the release of hledger 1.31, so getting the new version was one of my priorities for this last.
Trying my wings with Awk
Last week I described my goal of changing my hledger account names to lowercase (except for proper nouns). For example, instead of I wished to have In short, the.
Making changes with and without sed
As mentioned last week, I wanted to change my account names to lowercase. For example, instead of my current: Expenses:Groceries I wished to have: expenses:groceries I also had waxed.
Three ways to make changes to an hledger data file
Sometimes you need to change some data in your hledger file. For example, you made purchases from Acme, but you realize that in your hledger file the name was.
Good intentions or good results?
To follow up on the August 3 Thoughtful Thursday post immediately below, it’s worth looking at the last step in the diagram. Specifically, you want to improve your life.
Why use hledger?
One worthwhile reason to use hledger is to improve your life and the lives of those around you. How does that work? I created the diagram below, inspired by.
hledger book of the month
The hledger book of the month is Make it Stick: The Science of Successful Learning, by Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III, and Mark A. McDaniel. What does.
Moving forward by going backward
When I use hledger, I am almost always on the command line. So, I find it useful to know ways to be more efficient on the command line. For.