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Wow, this seems cool! Would love some integration with [plain text accounting](https://plaintextaccounting.org/ https://plaintextaccounting.org/) so that I don

Wow, this seems cool! Would love some integration with [plain text accounting](https://plaintextaccounting.org/ https://plaintextaccounting.org/) so that I don't have to re-document all my finances though, even just a simple `ledger equity` import.

scubakid 4y ago
That could be an interesting suggestion to add on changemap. Can't say I'm familiar with the site yet, but what would your vision for a good workflow look like if the right integration was in place?
- mjsir911 4y ago
  Looking over the app in-depth, I see a lot that could be done depending on how much you want to do ;-) - The initial import can be done pretty easily, `ledger bal` reports my current balances, so for example I can do `ledger bal Assets` and it will report back totals on my `Assets:<Bank>`, `Assets:Retirement:401k`, `Assets:Retirement:Roth 401k`, etc. - You could potentially get a very in-depth "progress points" import with `ledger reg`, which just shows the history of my ledger. `ledger reg Assets:<Bank> --monthly --collapse --total-data` gives me a monthly tally of my savings since forever. - It would be possible but harder to infer future events & spending I think. I can somewhat figure out how much I spend monthly looking at my data, but you'de need heavy processing to get anything useful out of that. I think maybe a more reasonable request rather than supporting ledger is to just support a general purpose plaintext import. The above `--total-data` command for example just gives me: 2018-06-01 10000 2018-07-01 11000 ...
  - scubakid 4y ago
    Makes sense to me! In fact, if you were feeling super motivated, it probably wouldn't be hard to do a JSON export of your ProjectionLab data to see what that format looks like and start putting together a script to transform from one representation to the other.
  - simonmic 4y ago
    How about a sensible CSV import format ? That'd be easy to generate from most tools.
    - scubakid 4y ago
      Sure, that would be very doable.
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scubakid 4y ago

That could be an interesting suggestion to add on changemap. Can't say I'm familiar with the site yet, but what would your vision for a good workflow look like if the right integration was in place?

mjsir911 4y ago
Looking over the app in-depth, I see a lot that could be done depending on how much you want to do ;-) - The initial import can be done pretty easily, `ledger bal` reports my current balances, so for example I can do `ledger bal Assets` and it will report back totals on my `Assets:<Bank>`, `Assets:Retirement:401k`, `Assets:Retirement:Roth 401k`, etc. - You could potentially get a very in-depth "progress points" import with `ledger reg`, which just shows the history of my ledger. `ledger reg Assets:<Bank> --monthly --collapse --total-data` gives me a monthly tally of my savings since forever. - It would be possible but harder to infer future events & spending I think. I can somewhat figure out how much I spend monthly looking at my data, but you'de need heavy processing to get anything useful out of that. I think maybe a more reasonable request rather than supporting ledger is to just support a general purpose plaintext import. The above `--total-data` command for example just gives me: 2018-06-01 10000 2018-07-01 11000 ...
- scubakid 4y ago
  Makes sense to me! In fact, if you were feeling super motivated, it probably wouldn't be hard to do a JSON export of your ProjectionLab data to see what that format looks like and start putting together a script to transform from one representation to the other.
- simonmic 4y ago
  How about a sensible CSV import format ? That'd be easy to generate from most tools.
  - scubakid 4y ago
    Sure, that would be very doable.

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