Thanks for sharing your success! Question: did you import and classified (assigned the other leg of the transaction) all your transactions manually or did you use any automation?
On Sunday, March 3, 2024 at 11:34:13 PM UTC+1 fin wrote: > as of today i've finally gotten one of my longest > running accounts imported, balanced, working, it's > beautiful! > > only a few transactions missing from the era of > hand written passbooks. > > i'm tempted to ask someone if they still have > those records around and to see if i can find those > to fill them in. > > what this journey has taught me is that if you > want a good and useful history you may need to > include more notes with the transactions. > > this one account history is useful, but it won't > be nearly as useful as it could have been had i put > a little effort into better notes for transactions. > > now i can move on to the next longest other history > i have which does have more notes and more details > but it is not complete either - yet it is better than > nothing for my purposes. > > it is very satisfying to me to reach the end of a > process and watching the stubs and shims get removed > as things balance out and hook together. since my > background is computers, programming, etc. it does > all fit with that sort of analysis and breaking > projects into parts and then testing the isolated > parts and then filling in the gaps and putting things > back together. > > i'm not surprised that it works, but satisfied all > the same. :) > > > fin > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Beancount" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beancount+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/86358e45-75fb-40c8-8ff2-2768fad1c3c6n%40googlegroups.com.
