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Preface

I want to structure the process of logging money expense/income/debts. Beancount has good reputation of it.

Setup

pip3 install beancount
pip3 install fava

Start your log

2024-05-18 open Assets:Card
2024-05-18 open Assets:Alipay
2024-05-18 open Assets:Wechat
2024-05-18 open Liabilities:CreditCard
2024-05-18 open Liabilities:Huabei
2024-05-18 open Expenses:Food
2024-05-18 open Expenses:lifeThings
2024-05-18 open Expenses:VirtualThings
2024-05-18 open Income:Salary
2024-05-18 open Equity:Opening-Balances

2024-05-18 * "银行卡"
    Assets:Card                    777.00 CNY
    Equity:Opening-Balances       -777.00 CNY
2024-05-18 * "花呗"
    Liabilities:Huabei            -11.00 CNY
    Equity:Opening-Balances        11.00 CNY
2024-08-18 * "Salary"
    Assets:Card                   3333.00 CNY
    Income:Salary                  -3333.00 CNY

Web visualize your graph

bean-web xx.beancount

Conclusion

I hope I could explore more, like use bot or other plugin(smart import) to log this in a long term.

Reference

• BTV