use "note" for account notes instead of "description"? about ledger2beancount

[aumayr]

There is a note directive in Beancount, but there is a explicit date attached. The example given would look like this:

2018-05-23 note Expenses:Membership "organization membership, non-profits, political parties, etc."

Another possibility would be to add it to the open statement of an account, eg.

2018-05-23 open Expenses:Membership
   note: "organization membership, non-profits, political parties, etc."

[tbm]

ledger2beancount currently ignores note entries.

It shouldn't. A "note" is converted to "description" metadata for accounts and for commodities you get metadata "name" for a note.

1970-01-01 open Expenses:Membership
    description: "organization membership, non-profits, political parties, etc."

Does this not happen for you?

Since beancount apparently supports note metadata I guess we should use that. @aumayr does that exist for commodities too?

[zacchiro]

My bad, I was looking at an outdated beancount file after having modified the source ledger one. I do have description metadata for accounts, as expected.

[tbm]

I think we should reopen this as @aumayr had some good input. If "note" is more official in beancount than "description" we should use that instead.

@aumayr can you clarify on this point (and my question regarding commodities)?

[zacchiro]

On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 02:32:14AM -0700, Martin Michlmayr wrote: I think we should reopen this as @aumayr had some good input. If "note" is more official in beancount than "description" we should use that instead.

Sure, feel free to reopen/retitle as needed.

[tbm]

@aumayr can you provide more input on this?

[aumayr]

Since beancount apparently supports note metadata I guess we should use that. @aumayr does that exist for commodities too?

In fact, it does:

# Straight from the Beancount docs: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wAMVrKIA2qtRGmoVDSUBJGmYZSygUaR0uOMW1GV3YE0/edit

2012-01-01 commodity HOOL
  name: "Hooli Corporation Class C Shares"
  asset-class: "stock"

[tbm]

In fact, it does:

@aumayr sorry, I think I wasn't clear. I understand that accounts and commodities support meta-data but afaik the meta-data has no pre-defined meaning, so you can use whatever keys you want.

I understood your original comment to mean that the key note has a special in beancount and I wanted to clarify if it indeed does. But I cannot find anything about note being special so I guess it makes little different if we use note or description.

[tbm]

I don't think note or description makes a difference.

[tbm]

Sorry, I didn't want to close (pressed the wrong button). But I think this probably ought to be closed.

[tbm]

I'm closing this. I find no evidence that note or name or whatever has any special meaning