Re: Personal Finance in org-mode?

From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Russell Adams <RLAdams@AdamsInfoServ.Com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Personal Finance in org-mode?
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:28:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5C271DC3-18B0-4844-80C2-08B03CBCDF72@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090413145026.GC4318@thinkpad.adamsinfoserv.com>

On Apr 13, 2009, at 4:50 PM, Russell Adams wrote:

> Madhu,
>
> I second ledger. I've found it to be very powerful! After much use, I
> even wrote a CSV importer to bring in my bank statements.
>
> Now if I could only use remember-mode to hot-add ledger entries.

You can now.  After the next pull, try a remember template like this.

This is only a dirty hack, I hope James TD Smith's
implementation will be better.  But it works.  If the
heading field in the template is `top' or `bottom', it is
now OK if the target file is not in Org-mode, and the text
in the remember buffer will be added to the file unchanged.

Try a template like this:

("ledger" 108 "" "~/org/ledger" bottom nil)

HTH

- Carsten

>
> Thanks.
>
> On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 01:53:59PM +0200, Carsten Dominik wrote:
>>
>> On Apr 13, 2009, at 11:19 AM, Madhu Rao wrote:
>>
>>> Has anyone tried to configure org in a personal finance manager  
>>> mode?
>>> I looked in the mail archive, but couldn't find any related posts.
>>>
>>> The finance applications on Mac OS are either too clumsy or
>>> sophisticated.
>>> I thought org-mode with some remember capture templates will do that
>>> stuff
>>> rather efficiently.
>>> If anyone has already set this up, that will help get started.
>>
>> While I have not used it myself, I would suspect that people,
>> who get along with Org well, would be candidates for trying ledger
>> by John Wiegley
>>
>> - Carsten
>>
>>
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