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I enabled notifications on all our cards and bank accounts so whenever a transaction happens I get an email.

From there I just use gmail filters to put all of those in a folder and then wrote a script to download, parse and enter those transactions on my ledger with “Expenses:FIXME”

Once a week or so (when I have around 10-20 transactions) I import them and go through them, asking my SO if there’s any transactions I don’t know of.

Alternatively I also just make one transactions to put in an account that is fully my SO’s and one that is mine (mostly for both of our hobbies) and those I don’t track, except for the monthly deposit to those



This is where I’d like to go. Manually logging into each bank and downloading CSVs every month is just too much of a burden.

I have email notifications for all transactions and a maildir on my dev machine. I just need to write some code to make it all happen.




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