Automating csv entry for a mutual fund
As mentioned previously, I am now tracking mutual funds in hledger. Since starting this tracking, I have been entering mutual fund transactions using hledger iadd. And this was working.
What did we do last year?
At the hledger fan household, we modestly support a couple of yearly charity events. This year, as we decided to support the charities again, the question came up: How.
Faster Git/Magit workflow
When I save my hledger data files, I use Git, via Magit, for version control. My personal accounting data is too valuable to trust to simply overwriting the same.
Tags transform trip transactions
On a recent trip, I hadn’t bothered to use tags to identify my expenses related to that specific trip. And I wasn’t intending to. All my trip expenses were.
ledger-occur
If you use Emacs and ledger mode, you have access to a very hand feature called ledger-occur. If you are not familiar with this, the idea is that you.
Double Entry book, Emacs auto revert, and Warp for Windows
Review of Double Entry: How the Merchants of Venice Created Modern Finance I recently finished reading Double Entry: How the Merchants of Venice Created Modern Finance. First, it’s fascinating.
Emacs revert buffer stops working
One handy Emacs setting that has worked well for me is automatic buffer reversion. Specifically, it is inovoked by the following line that I have in my init file:.
hledger happiness
The reason to use hledger or similar program is that it should give you some benefit. For me there are both large and small benefits to using hledger, and.
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.
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.