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Yes, no. Yes, Ledger can do all those things. No, it doesn't do this "out of the box". I do most of these things. Simple, by adding meta-tags to my ledger. I'
by berkes 3y ago
Yes, no.
Yes, Ledger can do all those things. No, it doesn't do this "out of the box".
I do most of these things. Simple, by adding meta-tags to my ledger. I'm just now working on consolidating on all my willy-nilly scripts and tools. And then plan to turn this into an actual "investment dashboard" ala ghostfolio but using the ledger as source.
In the end, a plain-text-ledger is just a of database. And the ledger query language (e.g. bean-query-language) a way to query it and produce reports.
So, what you are asking is more like "can SQLite categorize assets, give a breakdown of the exposure according to such cats per industry, region etc". Well, sure it can. But it's a bit of a strange question.
- olejorgenb 3y agoOf course it's possible to implement these features on top of any system which stores the transactions... but I'm sure you agree that to a user it matters that these things are accessible without writing lots of willy-nilly scripts, and preferable not having to add such meta-tags manually when other sources have already categorized them. Thus I suspect there's space for more specialized solutions like Ghostfolio. Although I myself would prefer if my accounting system could also do these things. (I'd be interested in these willy-nilly scripts. I also enjoy writing willy-nilly scripts, but time is limited) EDIT: saw the link you already posted
- berkes 3y agoI entirely agree. And this is why I'm building use-focused, case-specific tools around ledger/beancount.
- lannisterstark 3y agoI mean, "It's possible to do this via x amount of work" vs "Here, you can use this OSS/selfhosted version which will do it for you." Do you legitimately not see the appeal of the latter to many people?
- berkes 3y agoI never said that I did not see the appeal. I'm not sure where you got that from. Au contraire: I'm building my business around that exact problem: that ledger is potentially good at doing anything, but doesn't do it out of the box.