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.
iadd will need to wait
The plan for this week was to get hledger-iadd to work. What is hledger-iadd? Also called iadd, it’s an alternative to the hledger add command to interactively enter transactions.
Getting narrow minded in Emacs
Last week I closed out 2023, creating a separate file for my 2024 transactions. In spite of having 4 months of data in my new file, there was one.
Time to close out 2023 (in May)
As I have written previously, I don’t need to close out my yearly hledger file immediately after a calendar year ends. In fact, there are advantages to waiting a.
hledger helps me get my electricity working again
Sometimes, one of the rewards for using hledger is non-financial. For example, just the other day we needed an electrician. One of the circuits — in fact, the one.
Using accounting for a better future
Some years ago, someone asked a question similar to the following. If you have a transaction such as: It is obvious how you reconcile the credit card portion of.