Project idea: Text-based budgeting software
Up: Ideas
Text-only data format
Budgets:
budget 2021-12
Expenses:Fixed:Rent 1249.52 EUR
Expenses:Food:Groceries 400.00 EUR
Targets:
target "Save up for MacBook Pro"
from 2021-05
until 2021-12
Expenses:Replacement:MacBookPro 1500.00 EUR
target "Holidays"
from 2021-05
monthly
Expenses:Fun:Holidays 50.00 EUR
Upcoming transactions:
upcoming "Rent"
monthly
from 2022-01
Expenses:Fixed:Rent 1301.27 EUR
upcoming "Rent (old)"
monthly
until 2021-12
Expenses:Fixed:Rent 1249.52 EUR
Main file:
include_beancount "../db/main.db"
include "upcoming"
include "target"
include "budget_2021"
include "budget_2022"
In the future include_beancount
might be generalizable to import other types of data as well.