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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: Greg Minshall , Charles Berry , Neil Jerram Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org Sender: "Emacs-orgmode" X-Migadu-Flow: FLOW_IN X-Migadu-Country: US ARC-Message-Signature: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yhetil.org; s=key1; t=1641862041; h=from:from:sender:sender:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date: message-id:message-id:to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version: content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references:list-id:list-help: list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-post:dkim-signature; bh=ojSTMfk8VNJwZiC1t6vVRMlNm4wCF+FjloxuArV0asc=; b=VUJ+PofnrkY7vNsCUCQ80Efs8JWWgvxlQFLOFr7+IZ2Sn+I2I+OjffJscnoPj5C6pMxDPn x4v6JNZVlRLPsIq6DZ3cSC+3mTL+xXeqntT4nhvshveJjqTbxAK+Dq9MxsDOjo72rA85WA QOen3XB7fhoObFVTZlxXBZAM0KYYLJQKKDrD+Pqv5DFUDX9p3RvSM5DPidLShTf0kk1Hpq REMgTVAdBbWPC9dHfELmclcOyUIT0M3ccT38GqOReqrLZnPcg7Qgf0pcE4u6phEgyZaZ7r bHzTwAE33gUdfx2tQlYWK+bjm1O+ZlIhXYSc+PUMfSVoqHhsUMJAunAGwOKFDg== ARC-Seal: i=1; s=key1; d=yhetil.org; t=1641862041; a=rsa-sha256; cv=none; b=L7CHcGM04SeVyKve2fcxz0/RTamXoEnkYDrYjxC2Xi5GjEUZKfIcXMd7R1qz3Mdp/l/RBf cgURvWm9jGbWLQ7/zFdj6Xr0oId6aI3A5xnjNFiA5xpkb7TvZ/atSpo8YenasYH2aUPHuV sfgn0+xYU7mk4pAxCgGD42mAvT0BgHpCulrXdguuruh8ko2J7h1h5nVS/BmoZs6VtxiFDK SozXKtSsKqutyHuQCOx93hfaeRlBWciXTFf5IHGEwD0kcr9whcN0jGz6rX9loHD7x8t01V rtRpcVMdSUHFTORsubq2aC/AbmKeAaRt8bOEKMfe2Js9sz7pb01j1AFs080V6Q== ARC-Authentication-Results: i=1; aspmx1.migadu.com; dkim=fail ("headers rsa verify failed") header.d=gmail.com header.s=20210112 header.b=XwwEkXsz; dmarc=fail reason="SPF not aligned (relaxed)" header.from=gmail.com (policy=none); spf=pass (aspmx1.migadu.com: domain of "emacs-orgmode-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org" designates 209.51.188.17 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom="emacs-orgmode-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org" X-Migadu-Spam-Score: -2.01 Authentication-Results: aspmx1.migadu.com; dkim=fail ("headers rsa verify failed") header.d=gmail.com header.s=20210112 header.b=XwwEkXsz; dmarc=fail reason="SPF not aligned (relaxed)" header.from=gmail.com (policy=none); spf=pass (aspmx1.migadu.com: domain of "emacs-orgmode-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org" designates 209.51.188.17 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom="emacs-orgmode-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org" X-Migadu-Queue-Id: 76E4931345 X-Spam-Score: -2.01 X-Migadu-Scanner: scn1.migadu.com X-TUID: QD1GKBn7vGmp On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 6:32 PM Samuel Banya wrote: > > The double reporting thing still doesn't apply to me. > > Even if you pay with credit cards, ultimately it comes out of your regula= r bank account to pay off. > > To me, its easier to just focus on the single bank account, and obtain th= e latest .csv from the current week (Last Saturday to current Saturday), an= d treat the entire list as a list of negative value expenses, and positive = income items to keep it super simple. > > The simpler it is, the better for me, because I honestly hate doing finan= ces, and only do them to make sure I'm ontop of everything as its the last = thing I want to do on a given week. > > Hope that helps give some background, since I don't want to appear to be = difficult, but would rather just "keep it in a spreadsheet". > > To kind of back it up just a slight bit, even the average Excel user woul= d say the same exact thing, especially ones that try to avoid having to use= Quicken or more complicated pieces of software (which I know, there DOES e= xist GNU Cash, etc). > > But yeah, keep it simple, keep it Emacs, keep it Org Mode, and keep it fu= n :) No need for Ledger. I totally get the resistance to ledger from having tried it myself for a bit, but that last line made me chuckle out loud. No one using emacs and org-mode is keeping it *that* simple :p The simplest answer is probably Mint.