Thanks for sharing! Added to contrib doc
On Mon, Jul 29, 2024 at 1:12 PM Vasily M <failingatfunsince1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > First of all, thanks for the great software! > > I've been using Beancount for over a year now and over time moved most of > financial stuff I've been previously doing in various spreadsheets, to > Beancount. > I've been very satisfied with how the whole process went, eventually > covering all my needs. But throughout I used some of the approaches not > mentioned or recommended anywhere so I decided to write a guide to > potentially shorten this or similar path for others. > > In particular, the first hypothesis I tested in Beancount was using the > pad and balance directives to manually track total balances of the accounts > at regular points in time (that was covered by a spreadsheet I created > before). That worked, and then I started to look into importers, beangulp, > then later beancount-import to fill the gaps in high-level numbers. As well > as that I tried to reuse other existing plugins to solve other common > problems / answer questions with the data. > > When I put it all together in an attempt to share config/approach I ended > up with this repository: https://github.com/Evernight/lazy-beancount (and > the guide at https://lazy-beancount.xyz/). It takes what worked for me > and puts it together in a Docker container that can be launched with a > single command. > > Most of the functionality is provided by already existing Beancount > libraries and tools but there's some original code like the > https://github.com/Evernight/beancount-valuation plugin or UIs on top of > it all (could possibly be Fava plugin but it's separate for now for the > simplicity of prototyping). > > Hopefully it turns out to be useful for others as well. Please let me know > if you have any feedback :) > > Cheers, > Vasily > > -- > 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/d824a27e-f477-4760-ba6a-bdefeda29d3an%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/d824a27e-f477-4760-ba6a-bdefeda29d3an%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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/CAK21%2BhNZQZEpxjFtAFsL3wGs2e-4jjHWm0apHXm1395%3DAOFyKw%40mail.gmail.com.
