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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Working program to generate fake hledger transactions
Last week I shared how I wanted to write a program that would generate hledger transactions that I could use in instructional videos, for example. I now have a.
Fixing my mistake after accidentally adding pending transactions
When I reconcile accounts, one important first step is to add new transactions. In my case, I add just the posted transactions on an account. That is, I ignore.
(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.