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From: "Samuel Banya" <sbanya@fastmail.com>
To: "John Hendy" <jw.hendy@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg Minshall <minshall@umich.edu>,
	Charles Berry <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>,
	Neil Jerram <neiljerram@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Question Regarding Creating Workflow For Automatic Formulas For Finance Based Org Spreadsheet
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2022 19:43:20 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <badd93f8-34f2-4ae2-93cb-13787ee8aa73@www.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+M2ft-eFm8HjpRZc69f=aJoHjP9UzQ79ukPAn7MWLYfv728Lg@mail.gmail.com>

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Very true, my config would scare the average Emacs user as its too complex :)

On Mon, Jan 10, 2022, at 7:41 PM, John Hendy wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 6:32 PM Samuel Banya <sbanya@fastmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > The double reporting thing still doesn't apply to me.
> >
> > Even if you pay with credit cards, ultimately it comes out of your regular bank account to pay off.
> >
> > To me, its easier to just focus on the single bank account, and obtain the latest .csv from the current week (Last Saturday to current Saturday), and 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 finances, 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 would 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 exist GNU Cash, etc).
> >
> > But yeah, keep it simple, keep it Emacs, keep it Org Mode, and keep it fun :) 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.
> 

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  reply	other threads:[~2022-01-11  0:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-01-09 16:56 Question Regarding Creating Workflow For Automatic Formulas For Finance Based Org Spreadsheet Samuel Banya
2022-01-09 19:05 ` Ken Mankoff
2022-01-09 19:48 ` John Hendy
2022-01-09 22:37 ` Neil Jerram
2022-01-10  3:42   ` Samuel Banya
2022-01-10  7:04     ` Marcin Borkowski
2022-01-10  7:17       ` Detlef Steuer
2022-01-10 15:31       ` Greg Minshall
2022-01-10 17:01         ` Samuel Banya
2022-01-10 17:23           ` John Hendy
2022-01-10 19:04           ` Marcin Borkowski
2022-01-10 22:44             ` Samuel Wales
2022-01-11  0:30             ` Samuel Banya
2022-01-11  0:41               ` John Hendy
2022-01-11  0:43                 ` Samuel Banya [this message]
2022-01-10 10:31     ` Neil Jerram
2022-01-19 15:01       ` Neil Jerram
2022-01-14 19:54     ` Quiliro Ordóñez
2022-01-16 15:15       ` Samuel Banya
2022-01-16 15:19         ` Samuel Banya
2022-01-16 15:35           ` Samuel Banya
2022-01-16 18:10             ` Eric S Fraga
2022-01-17  0:41           ` John Hendy
2022-01-10 13:35 ` Eric S Fraga
2022-01-10 17:09   ` Bob Newell

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