Plain Text Accounting Apps

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  • ledg

    Batch modifiable ledger-like written in nodejs

  • I’ve never seems a timeline-view calendar in the terminal like here: https://github.com/SitanHuang/ledg

    What libraries were used to do that? I don’t see a package.json

  • dotfiles

    :house: dotfiles and personal scripts (by roylez)

  • Have you tried `ledger xact` command? This helps to create new transactions based on previous ones. I have a small wrapper[1] for this, namely "la", which enables me to do something like "la coles 5" to create a new transaction like previous supermarket transaction with the today as date, same from and to accounts, and $5 as amount. If I want to change something, it could be as complete as "la [YYYY.MM.DD/M.D/D] coles grocery 5 credit". If someone has tens of transactions per day it is very likely they are all similar and only little extra adjustment is needed.

    Also I use a credit card for most of my expenses, and there are only a handful of bank transfers per month from my access account. Every first day of the month I pull out last month's credit card statement and log all the transactions. It usually takes less than 30 minutes.

    [1]: https://github.com/roylez/dotfiles/blob/master/misc/bin/la

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  • ofxtools

    Python OFX Library

  • If you're based in the US, I would recommend ofxtools [1]. Anytime an institution supports "Download in Quicken", they have an OFX endpoint that you can find via ofxhome.

    [1] https://github.com/csingley/ofxtools

  • beanborg

  • Long time beancount user here: in case anyone wants to give plaintextaccounting a try, I have created a semi-automatic transactions import tool for beancount, which categorizes transactions imported from CSV files: https://github.com/luciano-fiandesio/beanborg

  • hledger

    Robust, fast, intuitive plain text accounting tool with CLI, TUI and web interfaces.

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