Beancount: Double-entry accounting from text files
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#2ah yes the masculine urge to use C++ and bazel in a python text processing codebase
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#3Jan 12 thread "Plain Text Accounting"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25745615
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#4Part of Plain Text Accounting family: https://plaintextaccounting.org/
I really prefer having complete control of my financial data this way, and reports can be as custom as you'd like. Better than something like Mint in my opinion.
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#5Part of Plain Text Accounting family: https://plaintextaccounting.org/ I really prefer having complete control of my financial data this way, and reports can be as custom as you'd like. Better than something like Mint in my opinion.
I hate mint but use a different budgeting system. I'm not sure you can compare an accounting system with a budgeting system - they serve different purposes. I'd love to build a full budgeting system on top of one of these text accounting systems some day.
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#6This reminds me of ledger: https://www.ledger-cli.org/
* Turns out they address the comparison: https://beancount.github.io/docs/a_comparison_of_beancount_a...
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#7Been a beancount user since 2018, great piece of software. Gets even better if combine it with auxilliary tools like Fava for visualisation and "beancount-mode" for emacs.
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#8Any married people have advice on how to track finances? I used bean count or ledger when i was single, but the manual system kind of breaks down when you have a family .
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#9Does anyone know if there's a good app I can use for plaintext accounting on my phone? I'd love to be able to use syncthing to sync the ledger on my PC and phone. It'd really help me stop collecting receipts so I can bulk put them in when I get home.
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#10Out of curiosity: has anybody used this to do business accounting?
I am intrigued by these ultra simple setups. However, most accountants -- the people who will ultimately help you once your business is sufficiently complex -- will use Quickbooks or some other established software.