Post 2752289 by ruebezahl@chaos.social
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(DIR) Post #2751701 by rixx@chaos.social
2019-01-07T23:55:12Z
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After evaluating a whole bunch of open source budgeting tools, I think I'm ready to write a long blog post on how they don't fit what I'm looking for. I'm just waiting for a response/clarification by the Firefly-III developer, because this tool comes closest to what I need.
(DIR) Post #2751781 by Joker@chaos.social
2019-01-07T23:57:35Z
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@rixx would love to read this blogpost. I used Quicken in the past and found nothing to track financial stuff with bank communication included almost as good as this.
(DIR) Post #2751792 by rixx@chaos.social
2019-01-07T23:57:51Z
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And this is not me talking down on anybody, or anything, or on open source – I had planned to build something like this myself once, so I know how many variations on the topic are possible, and how tricky all of them are. I'm impressed with several of the apps on offer, especially Firefly-III!
(DIR) Post #2751841 by rixx@chaos.social
2019-01-07T23:59:28Z
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@Joker Yeah, I'm using YNAB and while I'm not connecting any bank accounts (inputting all data manually), they still retain way too much data on me. Looking for a way out, but so far nothing fits. :\
(DIR) Post #2752289 by ruebezahl@chaos.social
2019-01-08T00:13:49Z
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@rixx yeah well. I suspect all we need is a slightly better ynab, as free software.
(DIR) Post #2752649 by rixx@chaos.social
2019-01-08T00:24:52Z
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@ruebezahl I'd take a slightly worse YNAB, too, if it was free software – but software that doesn't support the zero-based approach is no use to me currently. (Maybe that's an issue that I should solve instead of looking for the perfect software …)
(DIR) Post #2759757 by ludger@eupublic.social
2019-01-08T05:50:04Z
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@rixxThat would be cool. Thx in advance. I'm very interested in your experience.
(DIR) Post #2760222 by esureL@chaos.social
2019-01-08T06:15:15Z
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@rixx What exactly do you mean by zero-based approach? :) @ruebezahl
(DIR) Post #2761921 by rixx@chaos.social
2019-01-08T07:43:17Z
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@esureL @ruebezahl The approach YNAB follows, where you assign all money to a budget.
(DIR) Post #2780967 by stettberger@chaos.social
2019-01-08T21:33:38Z
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@rixxI'm kind of happy with my ledger-cli setup right now. Monthly budgets, inter-monthly virtual funds, import via aqbanking and Python. Using make to show my reports
(DIR) Post #2780981 by rixx@chaos.social
2019-01-08T21:34:14Z
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@stettberger I thought ledger didn't really do budgets? Can you share more about your setup or a link to helpful documentation?
(DIR) Post #2792155 by stettberger@chaos.social
2019-01-09T06:05:57Z
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@rixxIt can do budgets that are reseted monthly. To bridge information between months and to cover longer running investments I build virtual funds.
(DIR) Post #2795371 by rixx@chaos.social
2019-01-09T09:06:30Z
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@stettberger Is there some other place to read about this? Starting to use ledger seems like a huge time sink that I can't really do right now, unless I can figure out beforehand if this can fit my workflow.
(DIR) Post #2827792 by stettberger@chaos.social
2019-01-10T09:34:26Z
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@rixx I wrote up some example file in a git repository: https://github.com/stettberger/ledger-funds #plaintextaccounting #ledgercli