Predict postings with amounts about smart_importer

[johannesjh]

Regarding the shared-expenses usecase: I doubt if predicted amounts make sense for this usecase. I'll share some considerations regarding your idea and ask some follow-up questions.

• On a general note: I have personally played around with shared expenses in beancount, but I have never used these features for real-world expense sharing. And I don't think I will in the future. The problem is: I found beancount to be cumbersome because its syntax forces to take the perspective of one specific person or entity, but it is not easily possible to view the same data from the perspectives of other stakeholders.
• Specifically regarding predicted amounts: I would honestly rather enter the shares by hand, this is very little work compared to what else needs to be done in a shared expenses scenario: Shared expenses usually writing down the expense in the first place, getting an agreement regarding who bears which costs, calculating owed differences, and compensating these differences by paying each other. Predicted amounts would maybe make it easier to perform one little subtask amongst all these activities, but the overall usecase would still not be supported very well.

follow-up questions:
do you have a usecase where you would really benefit from predicted amounts?
how would you deal with the uncertainty that the prediction could be wrong?

[johannesjh]

long time no hear... shall we close this issue?

[johannesjh]

(I closed this issue due to inactivity... feel free to re-open, contributions welcome!)