On Sun, Aug 17, 2025 at 09:32:18PM -0700, Viren Bhanot wrote: > 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.
For this, there are two ways: - From the Income Statement view, select an expense category first (or not, to see all expenses at once), and then change the frequency to "Yearly" on the top right. You know have year-by-year view. - If you are interested in a *specific* year instead, just enter it in the "Time" filter on the top. This also works for months, for ranges, etc. > The documentation also seems non-existent. I wouldn't say this, but the result is indeed the same: most of the documentation in the Beancount ecosystem (which is *awesome* in terms of quality) is nowadays out of date, and hence often useless. The Fava documentation is pretty good though. > * What is my net worth? This is under "Balance sheet" > "Net worth", ready to use. > * How much have I been spending on Expenses:Restaurants year-over-year? See above, this is trivial with Fava. > * 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. For everything else, yes, you either need to write queries or use existing plugins. But I think you are coming to the Beancount project with the wrong expectations. Beancount is not a full-fledged personal finance system. It's a basic storage system/"calculator" for your transactions. What you want should be built *on top of it*, and in part it has been, in part not. > As I said, I apologise if I come across a bit cranky but I think that. Well, I think you could have asked the same questions in a less "cranky" way indeed. It would have helped :-) Hope this helps, Cheers -- Stefano Zacchiroli - https://upsilon.cc/zack Full professor of Computer Science, Polytechnic Institute of Paris Co-founder & CSO Software Heritage -- 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/20250818084820.ij2h7uvqd74vkyd2%40upsilon.cc.
