Re: [GNC] Finance Quotes Yahoo off the rails again?
On 4/4/24 4:02 PM, David G. Pickett wrote: Ran OK for me last night, 28 seconds, but running too often seems to create errors: 2024-04-03 23:45:01 Start GnuCash_price_cron /home/dgp/GnuCash/ubuntu-DGPickett.gnucash 2024-04-03 23:45:01 Killing gnucash hard 2024-04-03 23:45:06 Removed any lck, adding price quotes flatpak run --command=gnucash-cli org.gnucash.GnuCash --quotes get -- /home/dgp/GnuCash/ubuntu-DGPickett.gnucash F: X11 socket /tmp/.X11-unix/X0 does not exist in filesystem, trying to use abstract socket instead. ** (process:102885): WARNING **: 23:45:07.118: Failed to connect to bus: Could not connect: Connection refused Found Finance::Quote version 1.59. This error is from Flatpak. Could be related to this thread: https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/issues/938 Since GnuCash is running within a Flatpak, I would first address the Flatpak issue. As I suggested in my earlier responses, the problem is likely something else with your configuration. Seeing this Flatpak issue makes that belief stronger. I'm curious if you don't have some sort of tmpwatch process removing /tmp/.X11-unix or files and directories underneath it. I could imagine if it gets removed while the Flatpak is running that strange issues could arise. Bruce S. ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user - Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
Re: [GNC] View Transactions After Importing from CSV
Thank you. I filed the bug at https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=799269 On Thu, Apr 4, 2024 at 9:06 PM Christopher Lam wrote: > Hi, enhancements should be logged in bugs.gnucash.org > > On Fri, 5 Apr 2024, 8:56 am Tom Balazs, wrote: > >> >I think it already does that for the Scheduled Transactions. It says >> something like, oh some time has passed, would you like me to create these >> transactions which you created in the Scheduled Transaction window. Okay, >> here is a register page showing the transactions I just created. >> >> I have already set up some Scheduled Transactions. So often when I open >> GnuCash it gives me a "Since Last Run" window. That gives me some >> information about the transactions it is going to create. At the bottom of >> that window is a checkbox which says, "Review Created Transactions". If I >> check that box, then GnuCash will take me to the main app and there is a >> tab named "Created Transactions". There I can see the transactions which >> were just created. >> >> That is what I want to see for Imported Transactions. >> >> >> >> >> On Tue, Apr 2, 2024 at 12:45 PM Tom Balazs >> wrote: >> >> > Yes, I see that. >> > But I mean that GnuCash should take me to a tab that looks like how it >> > displays the results of a Find Transaction. It opens a Register page and >> > shows only the matching transactions. >> > I think it already does that for the Scheduled Transactions. It says >> > something like, oh some time has passed, would you like me to create >> these >> > transactions which you created in the Scheduled Transaction window. >> Okay, >> > here is a register page showing the transactions I just created. >> > >> > >> > >> > On Fri, Dec 22, 2023 at 12:35 PM Kalpesh Patel >> > wrote: >> > >> >> During the actual importation process, GNC always shows a confirmation >> >> dialogue box to take an action on all transaction it found. This is >> where >> >> you get a chance to select 'A' to add transaction, 'U+C' to update and >> >> clear matched one, 'C' to clear existing matched one, or select >> nothing and >> >> do nothing with that transaction. This is automatic -- ie there is >> nothing >> >> needs to be done, either via setting or manually, to trigger it to >> come up >> >> during every import. Note that if a transaction is matched >> incorrectly, you >> >> can check either 'U+C' or 'C" and then double clicking on it will >> bring up >> >> another dialogue box with a list of transactions it believe matches or >> are >> >> similar from which you can select on that it should match with. >> >> >> >> -Original Message- >> >> From: Tom Balazs >> >> Sent: Friday, December 22, 2023 7:02 AM >> >> To: Post to GnuCash User >> >> Subject: [GNC] View Transactions After Importing from CSV >> >> >> >> I'm using Financisto+ on my Android phone. So I am often exporting >> >> transactions from that, and importing them into GnuCash. Is there an >> option >> >> where I can view the transactions I just imported? So they appear on >> one >> >> page, as if I did a Find in GnuCash. I think I came across that once, >> but I >> >> can't find it again. >> >> >> >> Tom >> >> >> >> >> >> >> ___ >> gnucash-user mailing list >> gnucash-user@gnucash.org >> To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: >> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user >> - >> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. >> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. >> > ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user - Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
Re: [GNC] View Transactions After Importing from CSV
Hi, enhancements should be logged in bugs.gnucash.org On Fri, 5 Apr 2024, 8:56 am Tom Balazs, wrote: > >I think it already does that for the Scheduled Transactions. It says > something like, oh some time has passed, would you like me to create these > transactions which you created in the Scheduled Transaction window. Okay, > here is a register page showing the transactions I just created. > > I have already set up some Scheduled Transactions. So often when I open > GnuCash it gives me a "Since Last Run" window. That gives me some > information about the transactions it is going to create. At the bottom of > that window is a checkbox which says, "Review Created Transactions". If I > check that box, then GnuCash will take me to the main app and there is a > tab named "Created Transactions". There I can see the transactions which > were just created. > > That is what I want to see for Imported Transactions. > > > > > On Tue, Apr 2, 2024 at 12:45 PM Tom Balazs wrote: > > > Yes, I see that. > > But I mean that GnuCash should take me to a tab that looks like how it > > displays the results of a Find Transaction. It opens a Register page and > > shows only the matching transactions. > > I think it already does that for the Scheduled Transactions. It says > > something like, oh some time has passed, would you like me to create > these > > transactions which you created in the Scheduled Transaction window. Okay, > > here is a register page showing the transactions I just created. > > > > > > > > On Fri, Dec 22, 2023 at 12:35 PM Kalpesh Patel > > wrote: > > > >> During the actual importation process, GNC always shows a confirmation > >> dialogue box to take an action on all transaction it found. This is > where > >> you get a chance to select 'A' to add transaction, 'U+C' to update and > >> clear matched one, 'C' to clear existing matched one, or select nothing > and > >> do nothing with that transaction. This is automatic -- ie there is > nothing > >> needs to be done, either via setting or manually, to trigger it to come > up > >> during every import. Note that if a transaction is matched incorrectly, > you > >> can check either 'U+C' or 'C" and then double clicking on it will bring > up > >> another dialogue box with a list of transactions it believe matches or > are > >> similar from which you can select on that it should match with. > >> > >> -Original Message- > >> From: Tom Balazs > >> Sent: Friday, December 22, 2023 7:02 AM > >> To: Post to GnuCash User > >> Subject: [GNC] View Transactions After Importing from CSV > >> > >> I'm using Financisto+ on my Android phone. So I am often exporting > >> transactions from that, and importing them into GnuCash. Is there an > option > >> where I can view the transactions I just imported? So they appear on one > >> page, as if I did a Find in GnuCash. I think I came across that once, > but I > >> can't find it again. > >> > >> Tom > >> > >> > >> > ___ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > - > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user - Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
Re: [GNC] View Transactions After Importing from CSV
>I think it already does that for the Scheduled Transactions. It says something like, oh some time has passed, would you like me to create these transactions which you created in the Scheduled Transaction window. Okay, here is a register page showing the transactions I just created. I have already set up some Scheduled Transactions. So often when I open GnuCash it gives me a "Since Last Run" window. That gives me some information about the transactions it is going to create. At the bottom of that window is a checkbox which says, "Review Created Transactions". If I check that box, then GnuCash will take me to the main app and there is a tab named "Created Transactions". There I can see the transactions which were just created. That is what I want to see for Imported Transactions. On Tue, Apr 2, 2024 at 12:45 PM Tom Balazs wrote: > Yes, I see that. > But I mean that GnuCash should take me to a tab that looks like how it > displays the results of a Find Transaction. It opens a Register page and > shows only the matching transactions. > I think it already does that for the Scheduled Transactions. It says > something like, oh some time has passed, would you like me to create these > transactions which you created in the Scheduled Transaction window. Okay, > here is a register page showing the transactions I just created. > > > > On Fri, Dec 22, 2023 at 12:35 PM Kalpesh Patel > wrote: > >> During the actual importation process, GNC always shows a confirmation >> dialogue box to take an action on all transaction it found. This is where >> you get a chance to select 'A' to add transaction, 'U+C' to update and >> clear matched one, 'C' to clear existing matched one, or select nothing and >> do nothing with that transaction. This is automatic -- ie there is nothing >> needs to be done, either via setting or manually, to trigger it to come up >> during every import. Note that if a transaction is matched incorrectly, you >> can check either 'U+C' or 'C" and then double clicking on it will bring up >> another dialogue box with a list of transactions it believe matches or are >> similar from which you can select on that it should match with. >> >> -Original Message- >> From: Tom Balazs >> Sent: Friday, December 22, 2023 7:02 AM >> To: Post to GnuCash User >> Subject: [GNC] View Transactions After Importing from CSV >> >> I'm using Financisto+ on my Android phone. So I am often exporting >> transactions from that, and importing them into GnuCash. Is there an option >> where I can view the transactions I just imported? So they appear on one >> page, as if I did a Find in GnuCash. I think I came across that once, but I >> can't find it again. >> >> Tom >> >> >> ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user - Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
Re: [GNC] Finance Quotes Yahoo off the rails again?
Ran OK for me last night, 28 seconds, but running too often seems to create errors: 2024-04-03 23:45:01 Start GnuCash_price_cron /home/dgp/GnuCash/ubuntu-DGPickett.gnucash 2024-04-03 23:45:01 Killing gnucash hard 2024-04-03 23:45:06 Removed any lck, adding price quotesflatpak run --command=gnucash-cli org.gnucash.GnuCash --quotes get -- /home/dgp/GnuCash/ubuntu-DGPickett.gnucashF: X11 socket /tmp/.X11-unix/X0 does not exist in filesystem, trying to use abstract socket instead. ** (process:102885): WARNING **: 23:45:07.118: Failed to connect to bus: Could not connect: Connection refusedFound Finance::Quote version 1.59. 2024-04-03 23:45:34 End bash On Thursday, April 4, 2024 at 01:28:20 PM EDT, david amaral wrote: I have been on gnucash for years now and have close to 300 securities that i get updates from yahoo.no problems as to yahoo limits On Thursday, April 4, 2024 at 10:03:26 AM GMT-7, David G. Pickett via gnucash-user wrote: My personal portfolio has 26-28 stocks (I recently closed 2 positions) (Diversity has it's virtues, and while IRSs are free choice, different 401Ks have different restricted choices.) When it is in a mood to block, it seems to block them all, not just the last few. On Wednesday, April 3, 2024 at 10:53:03 PM EDT, Bruce Schuck wrote: Wed Apr 3 13:40:48 EDT 2024 David G. Pickett wrote: > Looks good, (only error because I need to switch DIA back to yahoo) > and slow but much better. A later run under cron got lots of > errors. Do they ration by IP address? If it is by frequency, maybe we > should purposely send requests only every 10 seconds to simulate a > human user? It cannot make it much slower. I've been meaning to ask how many securities are you attempting to get prices for? Early on in this thread I called out the "500" responses. A "500" typically gets returned from a web page if the site has an issue. When Yahoo turned off the previous APIs F::Q was using, the HTTP response was one of the "40?" that would be expected. With no one else reporting the same issue my sense is that your errors are the result of something on your end. I also use YahooJSON, and a cron job fired every weekday at 13:30 Pacific time (16:30 Eastern) updates about 20 securities in less than 15 seconds. My log from today's (04/03/2024) run: = gnc-get-quote.sh start: Wed Apr 3 01:30:01 PM PDT 2024 DATAFILE: /home/bschuck/Documents/bschuck.gnucash BKUPFILE: /home/bschuck/Documents/bschuck.gnucash.20240403133001.gnucash Found Finance::Quote version 1.59. gz_thread_func EOF gnc-get-quote.sh completed: Wed Apr 3 01:30:13 PM PDT 2024 = I would not be surprised if you have a sufficiently large number of securities that Yahoo has mechanisms in place to detect and block/limit further lookups. Bruce S. ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user - Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user - Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
Re: [GNC] Using gnucash-cli for updating quotes on Windows
> On Apr 4, 2024, at 9:42 AM, fromvendor wrote:
>
> I'm having trouble trying to tell gnucash-cli -Q get which provider to use.
> I want it to use yahoo_json, which is what I have set up in the Security
> Editor ("Yahoo as JSON" for single quote source)
>
> When I do get it to run, it looks like it's getting the data from
> AlphaVantage as I get the following Warning message:
> WARN [GncFQQuoteSource::GncFQQuoteSource()] No Alpha
> Vantage API key set, currency quotes and other AlphaVantage based quotes
> won't work.
>
> It did work as I only have three securities at the moment. So, how do I
> specify yahoo_json on the command line or is the warning spurious?
>
>
>
> BTW, I really had a hard time getting the command to run properly on windows.
> Perhaps I'm dumb, but the online places give no examples of what a properly
> formatted command to look like. I did, however get the command to run and it
> did update my file.
>
> Here's what I discovered. Perhaps useful to someone in the future.
>
> Apparently the datafile specification won't allow specifying the drive as I
> get this error: failed to get_backend using access method "O"
> I don't know if it would have handled a path specification, but since I had
> to change to a different drive anyway, I changed my command window to the
> location where the file resides.
> Further, the datafile name wants the entire name with the suffix (so
> .gnucash)
> This resulted in a command line which looked like this: "C:\Program Files
> (x86)\gnucash\bin\gnucash-cli.exe" -Q info <-- case matters for the -Q
> This resulted in output so I did that right
> Continued on to use the get and ended up with: "C:\Program Files
> (x86)\gnucash\bin\gnucash-cli.exe" -Q get ".gnucash"
> and that did update my datafile albeit with the warning above.
The missing Alphavantage key warning is independent of the price sources in
your file because of Alphavantage being the default source for retrieving
currency exchange rates.
You don't specify the source on the command line with '-Q get'. It's specified
for each commodity in the data file.
The data-file spec takes a URI so you can use the form
'file:///o:/path/to/datafile.gnucash' to access files on a a different drive
from your CWD.
Regards,
John Ralls
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Re: [GNC] Finance Quotes Yahoo off the rails again?
I have been on gnucash for years now and have close to 300 securities that i get updates from yahoo.no problems as to yahoo limits On Thursday, April 4, 2024 at 10:03:26 AM GMT-7, David G. Pickett via gnucash-user wrote: My personal portfolio has 26-28 stocks (I recently closed 2 positions) (Diversity has it's virtues, and while IRSs are free choice, different 401Ks have different restricted choices.) When it is in a mood to block, it seems to block them all, not just the last few. On Wednesday, April 3, 2024 at 10:53:03 PM EDT, Bruce Schuck wrote: Wed Apr 3 13:40:48 EDT 2024 David G. Pickett wrote: > Looks good, (only error because I need to switch DIA back to yahoo) > and slow but much better. A later run under cron got lots of > errors. Do they ration by IP address? If it is by frequency, maybe we > should purposely send requests only every 10 seconds to simulate a > human user? It cannot make it much slower. I've been meaning to ask how many securities are you attempting to get prices for? Early on in this thread I called out the "500" responses. A "500" typically gets returned from a web page if the site has an issue. When Yahoo turned off the previous APIs F::Q was using, the HTTP response was one of the "40?" that would be expected. With no one else reporting the same issue my sense is that your errors are the result of something on your end. I also use YahooJSON, and a cron job fired every weekday at 13:30 Pacific time (16:30 Eastern) updates about 20 securities in less than 15 seconds. My log from today's (04/03/2024) run: = gnc-get-quote.sh start: Wed Apr 3 01:30:01 PM PDT 2024 DATAFILE: /home/bschuck/Documents/bschuck.gnucash BKUPFILE: /home/bschuck/Documents/bschuck.gnucash.20240403133001.gnucash Found Finance::Quote version 1.59. gz_thread_func EOF gnc-get-quote.sh completed: Wed Apr 3 01:30:13 PM PDT 2024 = I would not be surprised if you have a sufficiently large number of securities that Yahoo has mechanisms in place to detect and block/limit further lookups. Bruce S. ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user - Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user - Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
Re: [GNC] Finance Quotes Yahoo off the rails again?
My personal portfolio has 26-28 stocks (I recently closed 2 positions) (Diversity has it's virtues, and while IRSs are free choice, different 401Ks have different restricted choices.) When it is in a mood to block, it seems to block them all, not just the last few. On Wednesday, April 3, 2024 at 10:53:03 PM EDT, Bruce Schuck wrote: Wed Apr 3 13:40:48 EDT 2024 David G. Pickett wrote: > Looks good, (only error because I need to switch DIA back to yahoo) > and slow but much better. A later run under cron got lots of > errors. Do they ration by IP address? If it is by frequency, maybe we > should purposely send requests only every 10 seconds to simulate a > human user? It cannot make it much slower. I've been meaning to ask how many securities are you attempting to get prices for? Early on in this thread I called out the "500" responses. A "500" typically gets returned from a web page if the site has an issue. When Yahoo turned off the previous APIs F::Q was using, the HTTP response was one of the "40?" that would be expected. With no one else reporting the same issue my sense is that your errors are the result of something on your end. I also use YahooJSON, and a cron job fired every weekday at 13:30 Pacific time (16:30 Eastern) updates about 20 securities in less than 15 seconds. My log from today's (04/03/2024) run: = gnc-get-quote.sh start: Wed Apr 3 01:30:01 PM PDT 2024 DATAFILE: /home/bschuck/Documents/bschuck.gnucash BKUPFILE: /home/bschuck/Documents/bschuck.gnucash.20240403133001.gnucash Found Finance::Quote version 1.59. gz_thread_func EOF gnc-get-quote.sh completed: Wed Apr 3 01:30:13 PM PDT 2024 = I would not be surprised if you have a sufficiently large number of securities that Yahoo has mechanisms in place to detect and block/limit further lookups. Bruce S. ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user - Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
[GNC] Using gnucash-cli for updating quotes on Windows
I'm having trouble trying to tell gnucash-cli -Q get which provider to use. I
want it to use yahoo_json, which is what I have set up in the Security Editor
("Yahoo as JSON" for single quote source)
When I do get it to run, it looks like it's getting the data from AlphaVantage
as I get the following Warning message:
WARN [GncFQQuoteSource::GncFQQuoteSource()] No Alpha Vantage
API key set, currency quotes and other AlphaVantage based quotes won't work.
It did work as I only have three securities at the moment. So, how do I
specify yahoo_json on the command line or is the warning spurious?
BTW, I really had a hard time getting the command to run properly on windows.
Perhaps I'm dumb, but the online places give no examples of what a properly
formatted command to look like. I did, however get the command to run and it
did update my file.
Here's what I discovered. Perhaps useful to someone in the future.
Apparently the datafile specification won't allow specifying the drive as I get
this error: failed to get_backend using access method "O"
I don't know if it would have handled a path specification, but since I had to
change to a different drive anyway, I changed my command window to the location
where the file resides.
Further, the datafile name wants the entire name with the suffix (so
.gnucash)
This resulted in a command line which looked like this: "C:\Program Files
(x86)\gnucash\bin\gnucash-cli.exe" -Q info <-- case matters for the -Q
This resulted in output so I did that right
Continued on to use the get and ended up with: "C:\Program Files
(x86)\gnucash\bin\gnucash-cli.exe" -Q get ".gnucash"
and that did update my datafile albeit with the warning above.
Thanks to all developers and the users of GNUcash
-greg
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Re: [GNC] first post
On 4/4/2024 12:44 AM, tburmas wrote: Hello, Apologies if this is the wrong list to send this to. I wanted to express my appreciation for this program. I'm coming from Quickbooks which has served me well but I'm tired of the costs increasing, every few years losing support and being tied to Intuit. I love how GNUcash has been in development for many years, is lightweight and powerful. To those who have worked on it, thank you. One suggestion I have as a small business owner: add a COGS (cost of goods sold) and an advertising account as part of the new file wizard for chart of accounts. It's the right list. As a new user, you might be unaware that YOU can add any accounts you need. The "wizard" to produce a skeleton CoA that includes accounts that would meet the needs of many users is just that, a skeleton/sample CoA. It's a matter of adding the additional accounts you need AND deleting the ones irrelevant to your needs. If the developers expanded to "wizard" to create a fuller CoA that would include all accounts that almost anybody might need, that second step of deleting would become onerous. Since switching to gnucash after the 2006 fire* I have set up many sets of books. In all cases deleting all but a few of the "skeleton" accounts, keeping just the few that were needed, and then adding lots of other accounts that were needed. It is outside the scope for us to decide what the CoA of any particular user should look like. For example, I lack the "qualifications" to give accounting advice. If you do need help setting up a CoA appropriate to YOUR business, that has to come from an accountant. Michael D Novack * Insurance would have replaced the organizational copies of "QuickBooks Pro for Non-profits". But why, since that did NOT in fact support much of what a non-profit wants out of the box. ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user - Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
Re: [GNC] Ledger-CLI
On Wed, 3 Apr 2024 at 20:36, Art Chimes wrote: [...] > > 2. Does anyone who has used Ledger, with or without Gnucash files, > have anything to say about Ledger and whether they think it's worth > looking into. > I've used piecash to convert gnucash files to ledger format (see https://piecash.readthedocs.io/en/master/doc/doc.html?highlight=ledger#the-piecash-command-line-interface ). There are pros and cons compared to gnucash, so it depends on what's important to you. I've found that account matching when importing transactions is better in gnucash than ledger-cli, the gnucash gui is probably better for most users and the built-in reports in gnucash help you to quickly get what most users need, maybe with a bit of tweaking to set up local preferences/options. Gnucash has a number of features, such as bills and invoices, built-in that you need to set-up manually in ledger-cli (i.e. construct a way of doing it). Where I've found ledger-cli to be useful is for automating parts of processes that involve multiple people - in one context I have a reasonably complex setting that involves lots of people submitting expenses claims, and I have created a google form with some apps script that automatically generates an email to provide a receipt for the person and ledger-cli transactions that I can just copy and paste quickly - this has saved me a lot of time. I use emacs ledger-mode to interact with my ledger files, so editing is fast and easy because emacs is good at that. I have a load of reports set up in an org-mode file which means I can have lots of variations saved that are quick to navigate to and can export them to nicely formatted HTML files. And because it's all based on text files, I can use git (locally) for version control. I can also log into my computer from my phone and run ledger in a terminal to do things remotely (mostly querying, editing is a bit fiddly). I like them both, for different reasons and purposes. David -- David Whiting ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user - Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
