Comment by markgall
I agree with the first two of these, they are great. (And I bet the third is too, I've just never needed it.)
If I had to submit one tip it would be to set everything up with a Makefile or similar. I keep my transactions spread across quite a few separate files for different accounts, and the actual commands I issue to include the right files are very long. Similarly I have various plotting and summary scripts whose exact syntax I don't usually remember. But with make I can just "make cashflow" "make balance 'A=Checking'" "make balance-plot 'A=retirement'" and so on.
> If I had to submit one tip it would be to set everything up with a Makefile or similar.
If I had to submit a tip on top of yours, it's to use justfiles instead of Makefiles :-)
https://github.com/casey/just