Viren Bhanot wrote: > ------=_Part_465578_1855231031.1755491538787 > Content-Type: multipart/alternative; > boundary="----=_Part_465579_1569482801.1755491538787" > > ------=_Part_465579_1569482801.1755491538787 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > > 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? ...
hello, i ran across this one and repeately was cranky about it but eventually found the solution i needed: $ alias netw='bean-query ledger.bc "SELECT convert(SUM(position),'\''USD'\'') as amount where account ~ '\''Assets|Liabilities'\''" | tail -1 | cut -d '\'' '\'' -f 2' which is my bashrc alias for netw, i use this several times a day when i'm actively doing any beancount updates or i'm trading. it can be simplified to: $ bean-query ledger.bc "SELECT convert(SUM(position),'\''USD'\'') as amount where account ~ '\''Assets|Liabilities'\''" the other one i use frequently are the current balances query: $ alias bal='bean-query \-f text ledger.bc "SELECT account, units(sum(position)) GROUP BY 1 ORDER BY 1" ' from that i can grep for the specific item like: $ bal | grep PnL | grep <symbol> i don't use fava as i don't like point and click types of interfaces unless i really have to. as you've found out you can do range of date queries there but i don't look at those kinds of things very often. and for FIRE i got fired long before that became popular. Sept 1, 1996. almost 30yrs ago already! eek! time sure goes by quickly. 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/o2qonl-bf5.ln1%40anthive.com.
