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Re: Question Regarding Creating Workflow For Automatic Formulas For Fina


From: Samuel Banya
Subject: Re: Question Regarding Creating Workflow For Automatic Formulas For Finance Based Org Spreadsheet
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2022 19:43:20 -0500
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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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