Fava VS reckon

I’ve been using beancount for almost 1.5 years now, and other than having to explicitly open accounts I love it! I use the fava UI to have all the nice modern visuals: https://beancount.github.io/fava/

I used Beancount + Fava for a web UI for years. It stores everything in plaintext files, but the downside is you either have to manually enter everything or probably write a script to import csv/qfx from your bank(s).

I suggest you take a look at fava. I don't think its data entry is good for you but the data visualization is pretty great.

And the following are interfaces of Beancount: Fava, a well-known UI

If you’re tech savvy, you could try beancount + fava web interface. https://beancount.github.io/fava/

I use Beancount myself (heavily supported by custom scripts). Plain text accounting options are not very user-friendly out of the box in my opinion. Beancount has a self-hosted web app called Fava that's good if you want a GUI. I believe there is something similar for ledger.

Reckon works well enough for me.

https://github.com/cantino/reckon

Or download the gemfile from the releases page on github https://github.com/cantino/reckon/releases/tag/v0.9.0

Thanks for the post Sagar, I'm the maintainer of reckon [1], a tool to help categorize transactions, which I used in ledger. There are a lot of interesting tools for doing plain text accounting [2] and I'm always interested in learning about new ones.

Reckon uses TF/IDF with cosine similarity, but I would be interested to see how you use Random Forest. Please post your code somewhere, I'd love to see it and learn something new!

[1] https://github.com/cantino/reckon

Hi, I'm the current maintainer of reckon, if you're having issues with reckon, I'd be happy to help. You can message me here on reddit, or, if you have a github account, you can post an issue in the project https://github.com/cantino/reckon/issues

https://github.com/cantino/reckon is really handy. I maintain a token file(used to map a transaction to an account) and run the reckon tool against the bank csv files in non-interactive mode to generate a temp ledger file, make necessary adjustments and then merge it with the main ledger file.