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• Thanga Ayyanar: Ledger CLI (in Tamil) 2024
• Edwin Espinoza: Ledger CLI, Personal finance in the command line 2023
• Prakash Joshi Pax: How to Use Obsidian to Track Your Expenses 2022
• Peter Berger: Plain Text Accounting: An Opinionated View 2022
• Glenn Ramsey: Plain text accounting for fun and profit 2022
• 季路LJ: Beancount |简略记账说明 2021
• Robert Nielsen: hledger fan channel short hledger beginner lessons, 2019-2021
• Brian Ryall: Managing Your Finances Using Python 2020
• Steve Anderson: Plain Text Accounting: How to do Signed Number Accounting 2019
• Quiliro Ordóñez: ledger-mode lightning talk 2019
• Dickson S. Guedes: Cuide de suas FINANÇAS pessoais ou profissionais usando TEXTO 2019
• John Nduli: Plain Text Accounting 2019
• Jean Louis: GNU Emacs database accounting and rant on text ledgers 2019
• Cindy Zimmerman: Triple Entry Accounting, Ledger-cli, The blocktree hash tree - Guld Ledger File Format 2018
• Colin Dean: Plaintext Accounting with the ledger ecosystem 2017
• Colin Dean: Plain Text Accounting 2017
• Simon Michael: Hands-on with hledger 2016
• Chris Vollick: hledger, an open source accounting tool 2016
• Austin Walker: Conquering Your Finances with Emacs and Ledger 2016
• Simon Michael, Randal Schwartz, Simon Phipps: FLOSS Weekly 375: hledger (3m overview, show notes) 2016
• John Wiegley, Randal Schwartz, Aaron Newcomb: FLOSS Weekly 150: Ledger (show notes) 2011

Accounting basics , PTA app docs , Comparisons , Intros , Cheatsheets , Cookbooks , FAQs

Accounting basics

PTA app docs

Comparisons

Intros

Cheatsheets

Cookbooks

FAQs

PTA apps , Editor plugins , Data import/conversion , Price fetching , Data generation , Workflows , Formatting , Reporting , Time logging , UI, console , UI, curses , UI, GUI , UI, web , UI, mobile , Library , Utilities , API

PTA apps

To do Plain Text Accounting, try one (or more) of the apps below. Generally it's possible to migrate data between them.

`` [Ledger (Go)]: https://howeyc.github.io/ledger/ [ledger-go-src]: https://github.com/howeyc/ledger

Editor plugins

Atom - language-ledger - ledger
Emacs - beancount-mode - hledger-mode - ledger-mode (good for hledger also)
IntelliJ - Ledger CLI
Nano - scopatz/nanorc
Sublime - sublime-ledger-syntax
TextMate - Ledger.tmbundle
VIM - vim-ledger - vim-beancount - hledger-vim - cmp-beancount
VS Code - hledger-vscode - ledger - vscode-beancount

Data import/conversion

• Ledger and hledger have CSV conversion built in. Also:
• bean-identify, bean-extract, bean-file - Beancount built-in tools
• banks2ledger - CSV to *ledger converter
• beancount-import web app/framework for converting various formats to beancount (python)
• beancount-reds-importers Simple importers and tools for Beancount. A framework to allow you to easily write your own importers.
• beancount-ynab Import YNAB4 (legacy desktop-based version) into beancount
• beancount-ynab5 Import YNAB5 (cloud-based version) transactions into beancount
• beanhub-extract Simple Python library for extracting all kinds of bank export CSV files into standardized transaction data objects
• beanhub-import Declarative idempotent rule-based beancount transaction import engine in Python consumes data extracted by beanhub-extract
• buchhaltung CSV/FinTS/HBCI/OFX to *ledger conversion/deduplication (haskell)
• Costflow convert one line message to beancount/*ledger format
• csv2beancount CSV to beancount converter (clojure)
• CSV2Ledger CSV to *ledger converter (perl)
• double-entry-generator Rule-based double-entry bookkeeping importer (from Alipay/WeChat/Huobi etc. to Beancount)
• fints2ledger FinTS/HBCI to csv to *ledger or beancount journals (python)
• gcash2ledger.py GNUCash XML to *ledger converter (python)
• gnucash-to-beancount GNUCash sqlite to beancount converter (python)
• gnucash2ledger.py GNUCash sqlite to *ledger converter (python)
• grisbi2Ledger Grisbi to *ledger converter
• gsheet-csv.hs a script to download Google sheets (haskell)
• hledger-Excel Excel spreadsheet to *ledger journal converter (visual basic for applications)
• hledger-import-dsl alternate, programmable CSV converter for hledger
• hledger-to-influxdb hledger to InfluxDB converter (haskell)
• hledger2beancount hledger to beancount converter (haskell)
• homebank2ledger HomeBank to ledger and beancount converter (perl)
• icsvledger interactive CSV to *ledger converter (python)
• into-ledger CSV to *ledger converter
• invoice2data extract data from PDF invoices (python)
• jali downloader/importer to *ledger (python)
• kmymoney2hledger KMyMoney to *ledger converter (clojure)
• kmymoney2ledgers KMyMoney to *ledger/beancount converter (python)
• kmymoney2ledgers.awk KMyMoney to *ledger/beancount converter (Awk)
• ldgclip import bank transactions via the clipboard with one click (bash/awk)
• Ledger in Go has limport, a CSV to *ledger converter
• ledger-autosync OFX download, OFX to *ledger conversion, deduplication
• ledger-guesser neural network for generating entries like past ones, can be used with ledger-autosync (javascript)
• ledger-myexpenses MyExpenses android app sqlite db to *ledger conversion (python, 2017)
• ledgermyexpenses sync MyExpenses android app to/from Ledger (bash, 2023)
• ledger-to-beancount yet another simple ledger to beancount converter (python)
• ledger-tutorials convert Pete Keen's tutorials to ebook format
• ledger2beancount.py *ledger to beancount converter
• ledger2beancount/beancount2ledger the best converter between h/ledger and beancount formats (perl).
• moneymoney-ledger MoneyMoney export extension for *ledger
• outofit QuickBooks to *ledger converter
• piecash GNUCash SQL to *ledger converter (python)
• plaid2qif Download transactions from plaid as QIF or CSV files
• plaid2text Plaid API to *ledger/beancount download/conversion
• qb2ledger QuickBooks General Journal CSV to *ledger converter
• QIFtoLedger (Bank of America's) QIF to *ledger converter
• reckon smart interactive/non-interactive CSV to *ledger converter
• slc generates Ledger accounting entries, works with generic CSV files as well as the Stripe API
• smart_importer library for building smarter CSV to beancount/Fava converters
• Tiller service to download from mostly-US banks to google or microsoft spreadsheets (commercial but pretty good)
• total_recall CSV to *ledger converter
• ynab-to-ledger You Need A Budget (YNAB) to *ledger converter. Handles multiple currencies, multiple number formats, reconciliation, memos, transfers, and split transactions
• ynab_to_ledger You Need A Budget to *ledger converter

Price fetching

• bean-price Beancount's price fetching tool (python)
• hledger-stockquotes download market prices for your hledger commodities (haskell)
• ledger-get-prices download market prices (ruby)
• LedgerStockUpdate update a Ledger price database (go)
• market-prices download market prices from several sources (python)
• market-prices.hs small, easy to adapt script to scrape market data from the internet (Haskell)
• pricehist fetch and format historical price data, with support for multiple sources and output formats (python)
• the-solipsist/scripts download prices for your hledger commodities, including indian commodities (bash)

Data generation

• beancount-extract-price generate prices transactions based on your beancount ledger (python)
• DepreciateForLedger generate *ledger depreciation transactions (python)
• hledger-interest generate *ledger interest entries (haskell)
• ledger-ts typescript EDSL for generating beancount journals (typescript)
• ledgerbil schedule recurring txns, interactive reconcile, date sorting
• LedgerScheduler move entries from one file to another when they come due (python)
• lotter generate postings for capital gain/loss (go)
• recurring generate recurring *ledger entries (python)
• reorder-journal.sh sort hledger entries, preserving directives/comments at top of file (bash)
• sassetti adds lisp macros to ledger files (common lisp)

Invoicing

• kairos (repo) generate invoices from hledger timedot files (go)

Workflows

• docker-finance hledger/hledger-flow/docker-based system for tracking and reporting on traditional and cryptocurrency finances
• Full-fledged hledger scripts and detailed tutorial for generating hledger journals from CSV files (haskell, shell)
• hledger-flow command-line tool to generate hledger (or Ledger) journals from CSV files (haskell)
• rtrledger another hledger journals from CSV files system, designed for chaotic German freelancers (shell etc.)
• Lazy Beancount Beancount packaged in Docker with additional plugins and tools

Formatting

Reporting

• budget_report budget reporting with beancount (python)
• gainstrack personal wealth analysis app with beancount export (scala/typescript)
• hledger-diff report differing transactions between two journals (haskell)
• hledger-irr calculate an account's internal rate of return (superseded by roi) (haskell)
• hledger-sankey Script + HTML files to plot income next to expense money flows from an hledger ledger file (shell + javascript)
• hledger-tools generating charts from hledger (typescript)
• hledger-vega makes configurable vega-lite charts from hledger (shell)
• hreports customise hledger reports with templates and PDF output (python)
• ledger-plot interactive tool for making GNUplot charts from Ledger (python)
• ledger-plots R package & script to make charts from Ledger (R)
• r-ledger an R package for reading and reporting on ledger/hledger/beancount files (R)
• TaxingLots calculates capital gains for a ledger journal (python)

Time logging

• org2tc org to timeclock converter
• on-modify.timetrack.py taskwarrior hook for timeclock output
• t ledger timeclock shellscript
• tim time logging/reporting tool using hledger
• timekeeping-template time logging/reporting examples/how-to using hledger
• tito time logging bash scripts that avoid double clock-in

UI, console

• bean-add interactive transaction entry tool (python)
• hledger add interactive transaction entry tool (builtin command)
• ladd create and edit a new *ledger transaction by fuzzy-matching past descriptions
• ldgr command line tool to add/sort/tag ledger files (ruby)
• ledger xact history-aware transaction generator (builtin command)

UI, curses

• hledger-iadd TUI for *ledger transaction entry (haskell)
• hledger-ui TUI for *ledger browsing (haskell, video)
• ledger-add TUI for *ledger transaction entry (python)
• puffin TUI for hledger browsing (go)
• regdel TUI for browsing Ledger files (python)

UI, GUI

• ledgerble reporting GUI with charts & adjustable reports (Javascript)
• ledgerhelpers misc. GUI tools + helper library (Python, GTK)
• Prudent integrated journal editing/importing/reporting GUI for Ledger (Javascript, mac only, closed source)

UI, web

• fava web UI for beancount browsing (python, demo)
• hledger-web web UI for *ledger browsing, data entry (haskell, demo, Sandstorm app)
• Paisa web UI or desktop app for ledger, hledger and beancount (go, javascript, demo)
• Ledger in Go web UI for browsing ledger transactions, reports, and porfolios
• Ledger Web ledger HTML reporting system (ruby, postgres)
• Ledger Web web UI/API for ledger browsing, data entry (python)
• ledger-analytics web UI for ledger data analytics (javascript)
• ledger-dashboard web UI for ledger browsing, data entry (python)
• ledger-pyreport web UI for standard accounting statements and unrealised gains (python)
• ledgeraccounting web UI for hledger: data entry, basic reports and budgets (javascript)
• ledgible web UI for ledger browsing, data entry (python)
• n4s danish-language ERP system (php)
• node-ledger-web web UI for ledger browsing (javascript)
• WealthPulse web UI for ledger browsing, price fetching (F#)
• BeanHub web UI for beancount browsing, data entry with a Git repository (proprietary SaaS; some components open source)

UI, mobile

Library

Utilities

API

• gledger Go package to interface with Ledger (go)
• hledger-lib library for parsing and generating reports from *ledger files (haskell)
• hledger-web the web app includes a JSON API server for *ledger files (haskell)
• ledgerhelpers extends Ledger's python library (python)
• node-hledger Node.js API for *ledger files (javascript)
• BeanHub API proprietary SaaS API for operating on hosted beancount repositories and beanhub-forms

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