On Feb 7, 2016 10:44 AM, "Simon Michael" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
For what it's worth, I'm super new and even though I knew what I was
looking for... having the tool named the same as a common finance term
makes it super tough to find relevant info.
Ever tried googling "ledger tutorial"? :)
In any case, my input would be to call this family of things something that
existing users can find, as well as something that might make it on the
forest page of Google results (if you'd like new people to find it as well).
John
> 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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