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by smichael 7y ago
bazqux, Feedbin
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by smichael 7y ago
I expect Linux terminals can do this: iTerm on mac has a "Hotkey Window" mode, which drops down a terminal when I press Option-Space. In (one of the panes of) this I keep a text-mode emacs open for time logging. I generally use it
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by smichael 7y ago
The https://www.criticalfrequency.org/drilled podcast is a great primer on this.
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by smichael 7y ago
I find it useful on blog posts in general. Eg to know whether I've seen it before, whether I've fallen behind your latest content, at what point in time you're writing, whether new comments are likely in the next few days, wh
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by smichael 7y ago
These are really informative, thanks for writing them. (Could you add dates to your blog posts some time ?)
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by smichael 7y ago
Thirded. No lens in pandoc (50k lines of haskell), darcs (40k), most hledger packages (15k).
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by smichael 7y ago
There's http://hackage.haskell.org/package/hledger-interest , a hledger addon.
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by smichael 7y ago
hledger power users (AFAIK) import most entries from CSV downloaded from financial institutions. I have this scripted to run nightly from cron, so the new entries are there awaiting finalisation when I open the journal in the morning.
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by smichael 7y ago
Thanks. Well if we assume "arbitrary haskell compiler" means GHC and stack (or just stack), "make install" will compile it. But yes, there will be much downloading, unless you just happen to have all those haskell libs c
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by smichael 7y ago
You can do those with it, in a manual way (I did for a year or two). More info on this can be found at https://plaintextaccounting.org/#budgeting . There's also non-envelope style budget reports built in. For more on th
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by smichael 7y ago
hledger has builtin support for four formats so far (journal, timeclock, timedot, csv). The current journal format can be quite light: 1/1 (food) 5 1/2 (car) 15 But I'll sometimes use csv for quick one-line e
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by smichael 7y ago
Good point. By "user-visible" I mean "any real problem a user could recognise if it was pointed out to them". Such as a wrong sign, wrong decimal digit, or behaviour not agreeing with the docs.
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by smichael 7y ago
What I mean is: - "The developers decided not to implement lot-based tracking" seems a misunderstanding. Perhaps "the developers have dragged their heels on exactly replicating Ledger's handling of lots" is more acc
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by smichael 7y ago
Maybe so. :) It's also code reuse, actually working, and quite common for non-trivial end-user apps, particularly in the Haskell world. I'm not sure what kind of software you're used to. It's interesting to imagine how h
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by smichael 7y ago
Thanks for the feedback, I'll take a look at the README. Does http://hledger.org/download , prominently linked on the front page, have the right info ? My intention was for you to find that, so I'm curious how you
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by smichael 7y ago
wodenokoto, may I ask which guide ?
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by smichael 7y ago
Basically any that export CSV. There are several that are specifically hledger-aware, but they might be all on Android so far, I forget. See https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/wiki/Mobile-apps for more o
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by smichael 7y ago
You're welcome. Re 1, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20020196 above. Re 2:, check out the timeclock and timedot manuals on hledger.org front page (I use the latter) and my https://hledger.org/
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by smichael 7y ago
I appreciate it!
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by smichael 7y ago
wtvanhest, not that I know of. It's hard to collect good usage data without nagging people. I hear from small business owners, the occasional accountant, and I have the impression there are other business/institutional users that
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by smichael 7y ago
As hledger's proud parent, having preferred it for my needs since the early releases, I can talk about this for a long time. :) The https://hledger.org/FAQ addresses it, as PhilippGille mentioned. I still find it hard
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by smichael 7y ago
PS Thanks meruru for mentioning http://plaintextaccounting.org . I started it to knit and grow our community, give more visibility to the non-Ledger projects like hledger, beancount and the rest, help answer VFAQs on IRC and mail
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by smichael 7y ago
I guess you haven’t seen https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/issues/1015 ?
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by smichael 7y ago
May I ask what system is that ? Maybe one of the other packaging methods will give you a more stable installation ? https://hledger.org/download
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by smichael 7y ago
I'm hledger's lead developer, thanks for the mention. If you have any questions or hit any snags trying it out, I'm ready to help. Critique of product, docs etc. is welcome. Last time (2017) we got 2 out of 41 comments about
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by smichael 8y ago
I keep a hledger timedot file[1] open in a hot-key drop-down iTerm window. Each 15-minute chunk is logged with a dot. I group dots into hours for quick visual scanning. 2019-01-08 fos.hledger.sup . adm.email .. adm.finan
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by smichael 8y ago
Draft: https://gist.github.com/simonmichael/5b0d3aafb4b71ccdadaa4fd...
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by smichael 8y ago
It looks not too hard - four invocations of ledger in analyze.js which would need to be adapted for hledger. (I'd give it a try, but I failed to get the app's main page working.)
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by smichael 8y ago
It's easy to confuse "virtual accounts" (imaginary accounts or subaccounts) with "virtual postings" (unbalanced postings), but remember these are different things with different uses. You can post to either kind of
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by smichael 8y ago
Same here! I keep live reports in a iterm2 hotkey window.

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