Re: simple expense tracking with org

[Charles Millar <millarc@verizon.net>]

Thorsten Jolitz wrote:
> torys.anderson@gmail.com (Tory S. Anderson) writes:
>
>> Could you give a few snippets of examples -- what the org files with
>> tags look like, what the result looks like? I'm interested because I
>> also use Org to do my budgeting and finances.
> You two know about ledger-cli, emacs ledger-mode, and ob-ledger.el,
> don't you?
>
>> Eike <eike@eknet.org> writes:
>>
>>> Hello there,
>>>
>>> I thought to share a little elisp thingy that I wrote to track my
>>> expenses with org. I use the org's capture mechanism to add expense
>>> items to some files and the following code only searches through all
>>> these files and creates summaries of all found expenses. It is possible
>>> to search by date, tags etc.
>>>
>>> You can have a look here: https://github.com/eikek/org-expenses
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Eike
>>>
>>> --
>>> gpg: AD7AC35E
>>> finger print: 137F BB0B 1639 D25F DC5D  E59C B412 C5F5 AD7A C35E
>>
I have found that ledger and Sacha Chua's org-capture-template, modified 
to my needs, does a great job keeping trackn of my day of day to 
expenses, amongst other things,

Emacs: Recording ledger entries with org-capture-templates

Charlie Millar

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