RSS2EMail VS beancount

hrm, not sure I've tried to go the other way. I use rss2email to bring most of my RSS feeds into my inbox where I have all the power of mutt or mail(1) to mow through my feeds. I've never wanted to go the other direction.

as a twist on this, I like rss2email which drops my RSS feeds in my inbox, letting me use my existing MUA (no new keyboard commands to learn, syncs read-/deleted-state across machine via IMAP, works with multiple clients, etc).

However, I found it wanting, so I returned back to my previous habits of using old-Reddit for a few sub-reddits with which I regularly interact, and use my RSS reader, (rss2email ) for the sub-reddits that I read without interacting much. You can tack .rss at the end of any subreddit URL to obtain the RSS feed for it. And I find that much more pleasant (having all the power of mutt for mowing through posts of mild interest)

Alternatively, for myself, I use rss2email to pull my RSS feeds into my inbox, reducing the syncing problem to one that IMAP has already solved for me (and no new UI to learn, just the same mutt/claws interface I use for my email).

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.