ledger-myexpenses

Import tool for a nice android app MyExpenses by Michael Totschnig

Features

• Use category as a counter-party
• Classifies assets between cash, bank etc. I.e. accounts like Assets:Cash:Wallet where Wallet is the name of the book
• Support for split transactions
• Aggregation of multiple transaction within a same second as a multi-posting transaction

Suggested workflow

• Maintain both ledger journal and MyExpenses.
• Keep account names and payees in MyExpenses in sync with main ledger journal.
• You may want to have root categories with names like Expenses:Food and assets like Bank:Card.
• If you need to generate transaction with multi-way 3+ postings you can create them with command "Save and new" which effectively keeps exact time.
• Periodically backup data from MyExpenses and append output of this tool to ledger journal.
• Sort generated transaction as you like but keep refs:... tags intact.

Pass --excludes option to this tool with a path to file with full ledger journal to avoid re-generating old transactions. If your journal is scattered over multiple files you can use output of ledger print.

Under bash you can use ledger print | ./ledger_myexpenses.py -x -.

Under zsh you can use ./ledger_myexpenses.py -x <(ledger print).