ledger on smartphones

[leandroohf]

Hi everybody,

I would like to know if someone is using ledger or its variants on
smartphones such as iphone, android or n900.

I think this is interesting specially when you are using ledger to
control personal budget.

I saw a finance application called Ledger at App Store but I don't
know if it is a Ledger variant or just a GUI to ledger or another un-
related project.


Thanks

[Johann Klähn]

Excerpts from leandroohf's message of 2011-04-17 19:37:32 +0200:

> I would like to know if someone is using ledger or its variants on
> smartphones such as iphone, android or n900.

I use a free (open-source?) app called 'Financisto' on Android to
collect data when on the go. Once a week I then use a script to
convert those transactions to leger's own file format.
Normally I also snap a picture of receipts using the app's builtin
functionality to later fill in details when at my desktop PC.

[Janne]

On 17 huhti, 20:37, leandroohf <leandro...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I would like to know if someone is using ledger or its variants on
> smartphones such as iphone, android or n900.

I have an shell alias "le" on my n900 that calls (over ssh) a home-
grown script that appends "ledger entry" results to my ledger file,
then commits and pushes changes to my master git repository after some
confirmations. While I definitely would try out a native build to
avoid the connection dependency, this arrangement has the added
security of not having a local copy of the data at all.

So I can add entry for my lunch by typing e.g. "le restaurantX", using
the current date as the default, and the latest accounts, commodity
and amount for payee "restaurantX" as provided by "ledger entry" (I
use version 2.6.3)"

More specifically, in my n900 I have:

alias le='ssh -t me@myserver "source ~/.bash_profile; le $@"'

where the remote "le" does some extra parameter handling and version
control operations and calls "ledger entry".

I hope this helps. Alternatives and other tips are appreciated. Janne