I cannot understand how to actually *use* beancount to do *anything*. From what I see, *bean-report* doesn't exist anymore, and certainly not in my installation of beancount from AUR on Arch (btw).
If I load my ledger into *fava*, I see some poorly-designed plots not useful for analyses. I don't get the fuss. The plot area is too small, the colours don't contrast well, the tooltips often goes off-screen, or covers the plot so I cannot see where I am. Also, from what I can see, there is no way to limit the plots to just 2023 or 2024 etc. The most useful view is the Treemap of Expenses, but even their the text contrast is poor and I can't seem to generate it year-by-year. The documentation also seems non-existent. The act of actually wrangling ten years of financial data into beancount was meditative, and a task I enjoyed thoroughly. But now what? How can I answer questions like: * What is my net worth? * What is my savings rate? * What is my FIRE date at the current savings rate? * How much have I been spending on Expenses:Restaurants year-over-year? Must I generate *bean-queries* for everything? Because that rather defeats the purpose of a ledger file in my opinion. I could just as easily list my postings on CSV and write python queries to it. What's more, I don't see how it could be interactive and *fast*? In the absence of a quick feedback loop, what exactly is the tedium of writing out all of my postings going to get me? As I said, I apologise if I come across a bit cranky but I think that. despite the trove of writing by Martin, I'm missing something fundamental about beancount. -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/dcd8ed97-0fca-47a2-965d-dcb30b41a981n%40googlegroups.com.
