ledger-obsidian VS beancount

I can add https://github.com/tgrosinger/ledger-obsidian to the list, which was very close to what I was looking for but in the end didn't fit my workflow

It's that time of the year when I see if I could replace my existing Notion-setup completely with Obsidian. Am currently tackling expense tracking, and Obsidian has a plugin just for this: Obsidian Ledger. Now, problem is that adding entries to the ledger while on the go is tedious, as the quick entry does not work properly on the mobile. So I would like to build a shortcut to handle this. And I have one built, where it asks for the expense name, amount, expense account and asset account. It takes each of those entires, adds current date, and then it should append all of that to the end of the transactions.ledger-file in my Obsidian Vault. Sounds simple enough. But what would be the best way to to that last step?

GitHub Repo/Demo: https://github.com/tgrosinger/ledger-obsidian

Have you had a look into plain text accounting like e.g. https://beancount.github.io/ ?

Also written in Python, loads of tooling around it. Might be even good to “just” as the database.

[1] https://plaintextaccounting.org [2] https://ledger-cli.org [3] https://beancount.github.io

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).

beancount -> https://beancount.github.io/

The beancount documentation has some good background material, and the concepts apply to ledger as well.

I track my personal finances using beancount. I have a plugin that I wrote for myself, which in beancount is a python module that is installed in the same python environment as beancount is.