Feature Request: Add support for attaching one or more images.

[jahagirdar]

My current workflow is:

1. Use a google form to record transaction's and take a snapshot of the receipt/voucher.
2. Use a Script to process the form and generate a beancounter file with url metadata to point to the documents on google drive.

I see this app as a replacement for my homegrown hack, but regretfully it lacks the facility to associate pictures with the transactions...

[xuhcc]

Perhaps a document directive would be appropriate for this?

[TRSx80]

I also take photos of all my receipts. Then I actually look at those on the computer and extract the data manually (with some helper scripts I wrote to make this easy and fast and limit the choices of e.g., Payee to a controlled vocabulary, so as to avoid typos).

Anyway, I think that photo management is beyond the scope of this app? The way I see it, dealing with photos (and other documents, for that matter) is a much more general problem that you will need to deal with anyway. And for that I subscribe to Karl Voit notion of a timeline. Basically I am using sortphotos (Python script) to move my photos from one folder to a timeline structure (folders by year and then month) and also rename them into consistent format (the latter handles the problem of different phones / cameras naming things differently). Then I have a consistent base to work from. After this I run my script which shows the receipt and prompts me to enter data, from which it renames the receipt file and also outputs a Beancount transaction into a buffer.

As a matter of fact, I only use Beancount Mobile in those rare cases where I wasn't issued a receipt (which, in practice, are mostly cash transactions). But anyway, I view receipt management as just one specific case of the more general photo management case. JMHO.