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Anyone doing plain text accounting here? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I recently started giving plain text accounting a go. For a long time I did not do any accounting, as my income was high enough to get by perfectly fine, but recently I wanted to get a lot more control over my personal finance in order to easier achieve more long term financial goals.

I've only been at it for about a month now, and I started out with ledger. So far I am enjoying the concept, but have not made much out of reporting yet. But I like the idea of also building my own reporting in Python on top of existing reports, and checking out the ecosystem around this (I understand BeanCount has a large Python ecosystem, so I will probably check this out once I have some months of data).

Are there anyone here doing this? I would love to hear some perspectives about this, both good and bad, from people having used this for a long time.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To save others some time

Plain text accounting is a way of doing bookkeeping and accounting with plain text files and scriptable, command-line-friendly software, such as Ledger, hledger, or Beancount.

source https://plaintextaccounting.org

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

That would've been a good idea to include in the post to begin with, I agree. Thanks for sharing!