Playing with #beancount and its web interface #fava to keep track of our little magic club finances. Nice and simple for our few transactions I think. Might be annoying if it’s only on my laptop though so may have to sync it somewhere. 🤔

I was looking at self hosted software options but I think they might be overkill.

any #beancount or #fava users here? i’ve been wrestling with a fava-envelope bug for days and unfortunately, i think i’ve hit the upper ceiling of my limited python ability 😭 this is the issue i’ve filed on the repo if anyone’s able to help: https://github.com/polarmutex/fava-envelope/issues/107 i’d be eternally grateful

the initial installation simply fails, what i’ve had success doing is building from source in a virtual environment (homebred-installed python). the plugin registers but doesn’t render any information

hopefully fosstodon gets this to the right people! thanks so much in advance 🙏

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Invalid dashboard ID: 0 · Issue #107 · polarmutex/fava-envelope

Hi! Thanks for developing fava-envelope, I've been searching for a solution to envelope budgeting in beancount. I had trouble downloading fava-envelope from pip, since I'm on a Mac using Homebrew; ...

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I spent a good amount of time yesterday afternoon prepping late-spring shelling and snap #peas and #fava beans for an absolutely seasonal dinner.
My 10x25' plot at the community garden. Currently 2 rows of fava beans, 3 rows of carrots, 4 rows of shelling peas, and 10 tomatoes. Central portion covered with bird netting to keep out the birds and the squirrels. #CommunityGarden #GrowYourOwn #allotment #garden #gardening #swarthmore #peas #fava #tomatoes

#Beancount

This is the best double-entry personal accounting system, leaving any others standing in dust. The core of the system is a text database, which I manage in VSCode with the related extension, and of course I store the file in Github private repo.

From Beancount is derived excellent graphical reports system called #Fava - you don't have to use it, but it's also very cool.

For me, the spin-off value from Beancount is that, being a text database, it also functions as my diary. I can and do annotate it. My journal begins in 2009 and is uninterrupted. Those were important years of my family life, all recorded in perhaps obsessive detail.

https://beancount.io/
https://github.com/beancount/beancount
https://beancount.github.io/fava/

Beancount.io Plain-Text Accounting. Powerful, Precise, Auditable. - Beancount.io

Write your finances like code—with AI-assisted insights. Beancount makes accounting transparent, scriptable, and ready for the age of LLMs. Automate reports, analyze trends, and build financial workflows that think with you.

I like being able to use flexible, rock solid, industrial strength tools from the huge programmer ecosystem to maintain and analyse my financial records. For one example: #hledger + #emacs + #git/#jj (complemented by ledger-mode, flycheck-hledger, #just, #pandoc, #fava..)

I like knowing that my data and reports are safe, portable, owned by me, utterly trustworthy, and get strictly better over time.
And if needed could be read or reconstructed by humans from a printout.

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