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#plaintextaccounting

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Ellane ·𐑧𐑤𐑱𐑯

Simple really is better, more times than not.

Yesterday I figured out how to track savings goals in Beancount (Fava) by creating a parallel BGT currency. It involves more data entry, but it does the calculation between what's already saved and my goal.

Nice, but unnecessary.

Today I scrapped all that (yay for backups!) and simply added the savings goal to the name of each account. Thanks for the tip on the forum, @simonmic

#plainTextAccounting#finance#budget
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Ellane ·𐑧𐑤𐑱𐑯

After 7 months of #plainTextAccounting, insights are starting to flow. Honestly I have no idea how I'd have tracked all this without a) paying a ridiculous amount of $ every month, b) locking myself into an app that doesn't do what I need it to, and c) makes it hard to move somewhere else!

Admittedly the hardest thing about PTA wasn't learning how to use the command line. It was learning the principles of accounting, and how to apply them to my situation.

#finance#accounting#plainText
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Antonio Gurgel

I hacked together a review of my projects' commits from last year.

paste.sr.ht/~goorzhel/07f7aecf

Salient trends:
- In January–Feburary, I created a homelab NixOS flake from scratch, after having used divnix/digga long past its deprecation.
- In April, I first published my Beancount tools, `budget` and `categorize` (#PlainTextAccounting). Hidden from view is the two months I spent developing them inside `~/money/bin`.
- In May, I read about the Chakraborty–Vinodchandran–Meel algorithm and implemented it in Python. I naively used a dictionary and couldn't find a suitable treap library, so it's brutally slow.
- I spent the holiday break refactoring Turboprop.

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Yann Büchau :nixos:

Another super interesting chart for me is this one: accounting loss over time, i.e. things that slip through the radar.

I fill my journal very thoroughly with ~1500 txns/year that I sort and tag meticulously, including all things cash (this is where things get lost).

What you can see here is: No matter how hard I try, ~1€/day slips through my radar - a lost receipt, some coins change hand on a market, etc. I find the consistency of this very fascinating 😀

hledger chart of accounting loss over time from 2017 to 2025, with green and blue line summing up to the total line showing a steady increase of ca. 1€/year.
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Yann Büchau :nixos:

Is this the everyone talks about or increasing ? 😅 Our living expenses have steadily increased over the last eight years. I can't remeber being particularly more economical in the past.

Made with my :hledger: -plot command (gitlab.com/nobodyinperson/hled). I find such graphical budgeting and planning very powerful. That's the power of : You got the data, do anything with it. 🚀

Thanks @simonmic for hledger, such a fantastic tool! 🥳

Graph of everyday costs (groceries, restaurant, cleaning stuff, etc.) from 2017 to 2033. Blue an orange line are rather similar (the two persons in the household), green is the total. Trend lines over each line. A steady slight upwards trend of costs is visible until 2024/2025 (now), from there on the budgeted curve flattens out.
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