ledger VS beancount

I thought this was about https://github.com/ledger/ledger and was so confused why they'd be on NPM.

Pretty shitty of them to pick the name LedgerHQ after Ledger has already been used for years.

as far as the ledger-cli google groups [1] go, they seem to think it is a proper journal file. It has been fairly tested with OFX imports (https://github.com/ledger/ledger/wiki/OFX-Import) as well bank autosync (https://github.com/egh/ledger-autosync).

In fact, someone also wrote a book on this - https://leanpub.com/personal-accounting-in-ledger/

I will defer if you are indeed building your own competing tool in this space which is better, but holding to the original point of my request - maybe it will be incremental to support your format if ledger-cli format is supported today. versus not supporting any disk format (or inventing a new one).

[1] https://groups.google.com/g/ledger-cli/search?q=double%20ent...

The best I found is a file from 13 years ago here https://github.com/ledger/ledger/blob/master/doc/grammar.y

You're looking for /r/ledgerwallet. This subreddit is about accounting, e.g. ledger for the command line.

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.