Using to track non-monetary values, tips
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Alex Hutton
Jun 22, 2021, 1:32:31 PM6/22/21
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Hi,
I started using hledger to track personal progress. For example, when I do 3 sets of push-ups I want to give myself one progress point, called a step. If I mow my lawn, I want to give myself another step. So every time I do something that I consider progress I accumulate a step into asset account. I have accounts for chores, fitness, financial, etc.
On the other side of the ledger is time. The units of which are days. Every step costs some fraction of a day. And the "exchange rate" of steps to days depends on how much I achieved in one day. If I achieved four steps in a day, then each step cost 0.25 days. If I did 1 step in a day, then it cost 1 day for 1 step.
I will now give you an example of what my journal looks like, with some questions about how I can optimise this better afterwards (becasuse, as you can see, there is a lot of repetition).
2021/06/01 Time for June
assets:time 30 days
2021/06/03 Allocation
I started using hledger to track personal progress. For example, when I do 3 sets of push-ups I want to give myself one progress point, called a step. If I mow my lawn, I want to give myself another step. So every time I do something that I consider progress I accumulate a step into asset account. I have accounts for chores, fitness, financial, etc.
On the other side of the ledger is time. The units of which are days. Every step costs some fraction of a day. And the "exchange rate" of steps to days depends on how much I achieved in one day. If I achieved four steps in a day, then each step cost 0.25 days. If I did 1 step in a day, then it cost 1 day for 1 step.
I will now give you an example of what my journal looks like, with some questions about how I can optimise this better afterwards (becasuse, as you can see, there is a lot of repetition).
2021/06/01 Time for June
assets:time 30 days
equity:timetracked -30 days
2021/06/01 Went for a walk
assets:fitness:aerobic 1 step
equity:accumulated_progress
2021/06/01 Swept the floors
assets:chores:cleaning 1 step
equity:accumulated_progress
2021/06/01 Allocation
equity:accumulated_progress = 0 step
equity:accumulated_progress = 0 step
assets:time -1 days
2021/06/02 No progress today
2021/06/02 No progress today
equity:unused_day 1 days
assets:time -1 days
2021/06/03 Wrote half and letter to penpal
2021/06/03 Wrote half and letter to penpal
assets:social:penpals 0.5 step
equity:accumulated_progress
2021/06/03 Allocation
equity:accumulated_progress = 0 step
assets:time -1 days
Thanks for reading this far! Ok, my questions are as follows:
- As you can see, I have an "Allocation" entry for every day that I accumulated some steps. This is how the exchange rate can be properly calculated of step to days. Is there a way I could do this with an auto-posting?
- When I was experimenting, trying to have a posting with multiple items and more than one currency didn't seem to work, for example, the following didn't seem to work, was I don't something wrong?
2021/06/04 Day's activities
Thanks for reading this far! Ok, my questions are as follows:
- As you can see, I have an "Allocation" entry for every day that I accumulated some steps. This is how the exchange rate can be properly calculated of step to days. Is there a way I could do this with an auto-posting?
- When I was experimenting, trying to have a posting with multiple items and more than one currency didn't seem to work, for example, the following didn't seem to work, was I don't something wrong?
2021/06/04 Day's activities
equity:fitness:aerobic 1 step ; went for walk
equity:chores:car 1 step ; washed car
assets:time -1 days ; allocation
- Another question, I gather that hledger doesn't have the ability to give me the time series of value of step per day? It would be great if I could see how many steps I'm achieving in a day and how this varies over time.
Thanks for reading, hledger is a great tool. I'm using it for financial budgeting as well.
Regards,
Alex
- Another question, I gather that hledger doesn't have the ability to give me the time series of value of step per day? It would be great if I could see how many steps I'm achieving in a day and how this varies over time.
Thanks for reading, hledger is a great tool. I'm using it for financial budgeting as well.
Regards,
Alex
Simon Michael
Jun 22, 2021, 1:44:13 PM6/22/21
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Hi Alex,
thanks for the nice example. I have only a quick reply: you can see steps per day with
hledger reg -DE -0 cur:step [-O csv]
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Simon Michael
Jun 22, 2021, 1:52:23 PM6/22/21
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Or perhaps:
$ hledger reg -DE -0 cur:step assets
2021-06-01 ... 2.0 step 2.0 step
2021-06-02 ... 0 2.0 step
2021-06-03 ... 0.5 step 2.5 step
or define a budget:
# goal: 2 steps per day
~ daily
(assets) 2 step
$ hledger bal --budget -DE assets cur:step -1
Budget performance in 2021-06-01..2021-06-03:
|| 2021-06-01 2021-06-02 2021-06-03
========++=======================================================================
assets || 2.0 step [100% of 2 step] 0 [0% of 2 step] 0.5 step [25% of 2 step]
--------++-----------------------------------------------------------------------
|| 2.0 step [100% of 2 step] 0 [0% of 2 step] 0.5 step [25% of 2 step]
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Alex Hutton
Jun 27, 2021, 7:32:16 AM6/27/21
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Hi Simon,
Thanks for the reply.
Thanks for the reply.
hledger reg -DE -0 cur:step assets
works quite well!
I also found
hledger prices -DE --inverted-costs
But the -E flag doesn't seem to work the same as with reg. I don't get the 0 step days with this one.
I also found
hledger prices -DE --inverted-costs
But the -E flag doesn't seem to work the same as with reg. I don't get the 0 step days with this one.
Cheers,
Alex
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