We have a lot of docs, in various states of freshness, specific to each
implementation. Also many informative blog and mail list posts. Much of
this is hard to find.
Reading Stefano's recent ledger list post, I think, not for the first
time, wouldn't it be great if we had all of this linked somewhere
central, curated, and presented beautifully, providing an easy on-ramp
and reference for newcomers and experts ? Actively maintained by the
community ?
If so, where would that somewhere be ? ledger-cli.org and/or its wiki is
the closest existing candidate, but it has never felt right to load that
up with non-Ledger stuff. I think it's valuable for each implementation
to have its own distinct site. I think a separate, well-named, highly
findable site, even a single page collecting all useful links and acting
as a portal to the ledgerverse, could be a win.
If you agree, what would you call it ? Martin, since you are retiring
your LedgerHub tool, would that name be available ?
Related to naming.. what do we call this whole topic, anyway ? Stefano
used the phrase "command-line accounting". But we have curses and web
GUIs too. "Plain-text accounting" ? Pretty soon we'll probably support
some non-text storage format. "Ledger clones" ? Too narrow. Aside: in
conversation, I use "ledger-likes" for things similar to but not
necessarily compatible with Ledger (ledger, hledger beancount, abandon,
penny) and "*ledger" for very compatible ledger-likes (ledger, hledger).
Any thoughts ?
-Simon
On 2/4/16 9:41 AM, Simon Michael wrote:
> I think we could pick out a few common tasks to focus our
> tool-building/documenting efforts on. Eg:
>
> 1. importing bank data and CSV generally. All of the tools and basic
> generic workflows for this should be described on one page. Focus on
> CSV, but we should mention OFX too (ledger-autosync is arguably best at
> this with its download feature).
>
> 2. exporting all data and reports as CSV
>
> 3. moving data between the ledger-likes (ledger, hledger, beancount...).
> Again, all tools and techniques gathered on one page. All existing
> formats should be listed. The output of "ledger print" is a sort of
> lowest common denominator, I propose we give it a name and decree that
> every tool should import this as a basic interchange format. And/or a
> standardised CSV representation of it, such as "hledger print -O csv"
>
> 4. moving data from and to other accounting tools (gnucash, moneydance,
> excel, quick{en,books}, mobile account apps)
>
> 5. manual data entry. Editors and their modes, ledger entry, hledger add
> and other prompting tools, hledger-web, recurring entry scripts, etc.
>
> 6. a catalog of journal entries covering all common transactions
>
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