Thanks for the encouraging words, Scott.
I'll take a stab at it when I find the time, continuing the discussion
on GitHub when I'm there.
Benjamin
On 3/12/26 8:02 PM, Scott wrote:
@Benjamin -- Fava has been a great tool for me, and I appreciate the
idea of wanting to make a contribution that is useful beyond your
personal case. In my mind, fava-dashboards has been a huge asset and
really opened up the possibilities of what I can easily be do with
fava. I think in that spirit, the idea of generalizing and exposing
fava's account view is possibly a very valuable contribution, and one
I have been thinking about as well. Specifically, I think there is a
gap in that (1) fava only exposes account views based on the account
tree and only exposes a few customized reports; and (2)
fava-dashboards is very useful for integrating graphing and BQL; but
there seems to be a gap in that the account views and reports that are
native to fava aren't easily created (AFIK) through BQL queries. I
think exposing the elements of fava account/report pages so they can
be easily modified ala fava-dashboards would be great
-Scott
On Thursday, March 12, 2026 at 5:34:08 AM UTC-7 Benjamin Debeerst wrote:
Hi all,
Chary, thank you for the suggestion, the screenshots from your
Notebook
look interesting indeed and I'd be curious for a share of that as
well.
TIL about Marimo as well.
In my case, my partner is also looking at the reports, so having
them on
the Fava instance running in our home network and which is being used
already would be preferable over installing/running/switching to yet
another, separate tool. The upside of remaining in Fava is also
that one
can deep link and investigate: "Wait, why did groceries shopping
go up
so much last month?" --> Click through to the journal --> "ah sure, I
made that massive purchase for the party" --> "let me add a note
to the
journal about that".
Finally though, trying to bring the thread a bit back to it's
original
topic: While it is certainly more technically involved to hack on the
Fava source code to produce reports adapted to my personal needs,
I was
hoping to contribute back and make the improvement accessible to a
wider
group, also the less technically savvy. Sure I can hack and do
whatever
I want for me personally and maintain/run a fork. But the intent
of my
post here on the list was to be able to make something that has a
perspective of being merged into mainline beancount/fava. Curious to
hear your thoughts about that.
Best regards,
Benjamin
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