ledger-obsidian VS hledger

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

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 Haskell), which provides some neat features out of the box, such as a simple web interface. All of them are very primitive compared to "professional" accounting software, but in return it offers great opportunities for hacking around while ensuring validity of your books.

I've been using hledger[1] - similar tool but has more features like balance sheet, income statement generation with a plain text file for the last 3 years and it's been working out great. Before that I used iBank (rebranded as Banktivity) and don't miss it at all.

[1] - https://hledger.org

I can offer this (warning, crufty real-world scripts ahead!): these [make](https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/blob/137d825/Makefil...) [files](https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/blob/137d825/Makefil...) and this [bash script](https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/blob/a3c300b/bake) have been replaced by this roughly equivalent [Justfile](https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/blob/137d825/Justfil...) (some old things were commented out, some new things were added).

I'm only a few weeks in, and just has its own learning curve, but I'm very pleased overall. Cognitive load is down, usability is up, robustness is up.

https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/issues/2047 . Thanks!

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