Sticking to the important
All kinds of things around us are calling for our attention. But just because something calls for our attention doesn’t necessarily mean that it is important. What does this.
Traveling down memory lane with PTA data
This week, my plain text accounting data brought back some fun memories. It all started when, a couple of days ago, we visited a chain restaurant and wondered when.
3 programs that help hledger work even better
Three programs help hledger work even better for me. First, is Emacs. Or, should I say, Emacs running in ledger-mode. With ledger-mode running, I make frequent use of the.
Reports need correct numbers AND correct text
This week’s hledger task was to correct some of the account names in my hledger data file. This came about after running the incomestatement command. I noticed some oddities.
Should you track work expenses?
Should you track work expenses? First, what are work expenses? Simply put, they are expenses that would disappear if your job, well, disappeared. Some examples of work-related expenses would.
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.