Simple Personal Finance Tracking with GnuCash

Re:Simple Personal Finance Tracking with GnuCash by seltzered_ on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @02:38AM (#23243930)

"each file is saved into a folder that corresponds to my account structure such as Asset:Current:Cash, Liability:Mortgage, Income:Salary, Expenses:Health:Dentist"

Beancount user here, even if you don't bother with any finance tracking, organizing financial documents following the folder structure is useful - see "Filing Dcouments" in https://docs.google.com/document/d/1e4Vz3wZB_8-ZcAwIFde8X5Cj...

Shameless promos:

- People are starting to make Fava extensions for things like envelope budgeting, portfolio tracking, etc. Usually these are announced on the mailing list: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/beancount

- The sublime plugin is great but I have a really useful improvement to search by org-mode headlines that never seemed to get merged - see https://github.com/norseghost/sublime-beancount/pull/14

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Re:Simple Personal Finance Tracking with GnuCash by BeetleB on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @11:46AM (#23248261)

> People are starting to make Fava extensions for things like envelope budgeting

I've been hearing about making extensions for envelope budgeting for years, with little progress. I haven't checked in the last 2 years though - any progress on this?

To be frank, it was fairly annoying that the author kept declaring it as "not too hard" and yet no one came up with one.

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Re:Simple Personal Finance Tracking with GnuCash by seltzered_ on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @02:02PM (#23249858)

Brian Ryall is working on one: https://github.com/bryall/fava-envelope

discussion: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/beancount/RXvOvHHdse...

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Re:Simple Personal Finance Tracking with GnuCash by BeetleB on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @02:56PM (#23250410)

Thanks. Too soon to see if it will be workable. I'll stick to Ledger until this becomes mature.

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