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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
(Almost) everything you wanted to know about hledger transactions
Last week’s posting had resources for learning the basic parts of an hledger transaction. The motivation was that if you use hledger, it helps to have a good grasp.
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.