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• 10 years of personal finances in plain text files
  14 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Jan 2026

  I've tried to track personal finances several times, but it only started to work when I've discovered the idea (from https://github.com/adept/full-fledged-hledger) that you need to treat the whole PTA story more like a project compilation:

  - Everything is managed by build system that is able to track dependencies

  - Inputs from financial institutions are kept in the repo as is

  - Those inputs are converted by your scripts to .csv files that are readable by PTA import engine

  - There are rules files that describe how to convert .csv lines to PTA entries

  - Generated files are included from per-year PTA journals (and you can put any manual transactions in here also)

  The benefit is that you can change any part of this pipeline, and just re-generate the changed parts:

  - improve the program that converts to .csv - raw data immediately gets better across the whole repo

  - add/customize import rules - better classification is immediately applied to all of the past data

  And with this approach you can start small (like, a single month of data from your primary bank), and refine the thing in steps, like adding more historical data or adding more data sources (examples being not only bank statements, but even things like itemized Amazon orders and Paypal slips).

• My Beancount books are 95% automatic after 3 years (2024)
  9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Mar 2025

  [3]: https://github.com/adept/full-fledged-hledger

• Automating statement file pre-processing
  2 projects | /r/plaintextaccounting | 11 May 2023

  I mostly followed a system like adept's fully fledged hledger but from scratch, but the concept is the same. I have import folder with bunch of importers from different sources all built with the same structure, 3 folders (in, csv, journal) which in order are the raw format of the source (.xls, .csv, .pdf), a csv pre-process version of the source data, and the final processed journals. In the root of the importer I have a in2csv and a csv2journal script files to handle the processing. You can have this scripts in whatever language you're comfortable working (even bash scripts will get most of the work in simple workflows).

• How do you track your expenses and savings?
  2 projects | /r/UKPersonalFinance | 27 Mar 2023

  https://github.com/adept/full-fledged-hledger/wiki is worth a read if you’ve not already seen it.

• Calculations while importing from CSV in Hledger
  1 project | /r/plaintextaccounting | 12 Feb 2023

  Expanding on this, many key takeaways in full-fledged-hledger is to have 3 folders per import script: in/ csv/ journal/ where in/ is whatever you have from the bank or the source and then you preprocess that to the csv/ folder, then import it to the journal/ folder.

• [hledger] New user, trying to figure out credit cards and accounts concepts
  3 projects | /r/plaintextaccounting | 7 Jan 2022

  I imagine that you import your journal entries from a CSV with a lazy rule file (like I did as well). I get that you are asking if you can rewrite the journal files to reflect an update in your rules files. For what I can understand there is no way to do that, but what I and this guys (https://github.com/adept/full-fledged-hledger) does is to keep all the csv files and regenerate the journal files on rules changes or new csv files, I think this is the better way to handle it.

• How do you track your finances?
  6 projects | /r/UKPersonalFinance | 21 Mar 2021

  Correct link if anyone wants it: https://github.com/adept/full-fledged-hledger

• how do you budget a loan and respective EMI with ledger?
  1 project | /r/plaintextaccounting | 21 Feb 2021

  Pour you can use hledger-interest to split your payments into capital and interest parts for you : https://github.com/adept/full-fledged-hledger/wiki/Mortgage

• How to keep track of investment funds?
  1 project | /r/plaintextaccounting | 21 Jan 2021
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