fava-envelope: map budgets to accounts?

[Brian Lalor]

I’m diving deep into Beancount, about two weeks in, now, and I’m really liking what I’m seeing; kudos to everyone who’s written software and documentation to make getting started relatively painless!

I was a YNAB user for a bit but fell off the wagon.  I’m looking to replicate the budgeting aspects of that product, in addition to tracking investments. I’m off to a good start.  I’m ultimately trying to track expenses and budgets for myself and also my household; like others my partner and I have “mine” and “ours” buckets of money and it’s served us well, but both “mine” and “ours” could use some budgeting. I’ve been attempting to virtually separate those buckets within a single Beancount ledger, but I’m suspecting that I may end up having separate ledgers…  

I’ve started looking at fava-envelope, but I’m not sure it can do what I would like: designate AssetA  as the budget account for ExpenseA, and AssetB as the budget account for ExpenseB and ExpenseB’.  Is that possible with fava-envelope? If not, is there another envelope budgeting extension that might come closer?

I’d also be interested in hearing about other approaches to managing budgets with Beancount that isn’t just trying to ape YNAB! 😄

Thanks,

Brian

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Brian Lalor (he/him)

bla...@bravo5.org

[polarmutex]

I am the developer of fava-envelope

Out of the box, fava-envelope can not do this unless you use multiple currencies (like USD_PARTNER for the other asset). fava-envelope uses separate budgets for each currency.

I can look into the feasibility of making this use case when I get time

[Brian Lalor]

Thanks! I was looking at the code for fava-envelope this morning and it is quite understandable. I may dig a bit more into this use case, as well. 

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Brian Lalor (he/him)

bla...@bravo5.org

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