Https://ledger-cli.org/ When comparing the two programs here, I can’t immediately see any big differences. Sorry if this reads like a shallow plug.

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16 days ago

I worked with John Wiegley for a couple of years and discovered one of his projects, Ledger (https://ledger-cli.org/), during our conversations. This tool taught me double-entry accounting and helped me understand finance and blockchains on a deeper level. Unfortunately, I’m too lazy to use the tool on a daily basis, so it’s the second most insightful piece of software I’ve never used :D.

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4 months ago

I use ledger: https://ledger-cli.org/ I believe this same plain text format is used by other tools, which you can find info about here: https://plaintextaccounting.org/ (In particular a lot of people seem to use hledger and beancount) The ledger is written using a text editor. The purpose of the software is to add everything up, calculate the balances and make sure everything balances. I keep all of my 12 years of…

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6 months ago

I’m surprised that there is no mentions of a great hacker-friendly plain-text accounting software called `ledger` https://ledger-cli.org/ in this thread. It has amazing documentation when it comes to understanding basic principles of double-entry bookkeeping and goes through many typical situations and usecases. There are also several forks, most popular and advanced is `hledger` https://hledger.org/ (h is for…

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6 months ago

If it helps anyone, I wrote a blog post[0] (based on this comment[1]) explaining how double-entry accounting works. I have recently been thinking about building my own program that implements double-entry accounting in a more approachable form for individuals. I’m not sure if pure accounting concepts are ideal for the average person for keeping track of their budget like how they are essential for businesses. My…

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11 months ago

I learnt all of this by using ledger[0] and, of course, reading its manual. I’ve been maintaining my own accounts for more than a decade now. It’s fun being able to plot my overall wealth and expenses over time. [0] https://ledger-cli.org/.

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11 months ago

Shameless plug: some time ago I wrote a booklet [0] about principles of accounting with examples in Ledger [1], aimed at personal/home finance (as opposed to corporate finance). [0] https://leanpub.com/personal-accounting-in-ledger [1] https://ledger-cli.org/.

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11 months ago

You could use something like Ledger (https://ledger-cli.org/).

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about 1 year ago

I had tried few apps in the past (Walnut, Mint etc), but I was
Reluctant to share my bank credentials, sms access etc. At some point,
I came across plain text accounting concept and never looked
Back. There is a big learning curve in the beginning, but in the long
Run, I think it is essential to understand the basics of
Accounting. Since it’s just a command line tool, it’s hard to
Visualize the data. So I built a…

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over 1 year ago

It’s not a mobile app but I always recommend https://ledger-cli.org/.

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over 1 year ago

I use this https://ledger-cli.org, but then built a basic web app that works on top of it just to make it easier to analyse certain things for my own use.

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over 1 year ago

I use ledger-cli and paisa to track savings account, investments, net worth, etc. At the end of the month, I run a script to convert credit card statement to ledger entries, usually, there will be a minor diff between the actual balance in my bank and the ledger balance due to petty cash expenses. I just put a misc expense entry to tally it.

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over 1 year ago

Hi! Thought there may be more interested parties in this group. There is a seed of an idea in r/plaintextaccounting, of porting Ledger-cli from C++ to Rust.

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almost 2 years ago

For the CLI rather than TUI, I’ll give a shoutout to ledger (which is what I use, but hledger and beancount are also good choices) for my /r/plaintextaccounting needs, and I use remind for my calendaring. I’ve seen some TUIs built atop them (I’ve tinkered with wyrd for remind and have seen some ledgerlike TUIs, but not tried them), but find that I prefer just a CLI and text-editor.

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almost 2 years ago

I’ll give a couple: remind, ledger (and its cousins hledger and beancount ), and ed(1).

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about 2 years ago

I’ve settled on https://ledger-cli.org. It’s not a mobile app though, and it’s very manual. But my favorite thing about it is that it is plain text format, so there’s no lock in.

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over 2 years ago

I’m writing a program that transcodes financial statements into a ledger. In that program I have types representing different activities:.

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over 2 years ago

I’m using a plain text accounting tool called Ledger (ledger-cli.org) so I have to revalue everything manually.

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over 2 years ago

I used ledger (https://ledger-cli.org/). It lets me track investments, salary, expenses.

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over 3 years ago

Does he use unix on his home computer? I use https://ledger-cli.org/ to log my expenses.

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over 3 years ago

This might be too tedious for your taste, but what I do is track my finances with ledger (https://ledger-cli.org/). There are spin-offs that have additional features such as UI (https://plaintextaccounting.org/).

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over 3 years ago