Ask HN: How do you track your finances?

Post by hugohamelcom » Sat, Apr 09, 2022, 8:22 AM UTC

nikonyrh wrote: post #19

I have a txt file with manually copy-pasted and filled lists for every month or so, 16 rows each. Three sections: cash at hand and in the bank, assets (excluding the house) and house & mortgage. This is kind of just for personal curiosity, checking the trends and having a historical reference. I don't really track my expenses, I used to buy beer only with cash (no debit card) but that changed due to COVID.

Post by hugohamelcom » Sat, Apr 09, 2022, 9:00 PM UTC

scottwick wrote: post #15

I've been using beancount [1] and beancount-import [2] for a while now and I'm liking it quite a bit. Every month I download CSVs of transaction data from my various accounts (checking, savings, credit card, etc.) and run beancount-import to categorize and reconcile transactions (I've written a few custom importers for this) into the ledger. I can then use bean-query (part of beancount) to perform SQL queries over th…