Plain Text Accounting forum

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Welcome to the Plain Text Accounting forum! Site We are building clarity, balance and financial fitness together, with plain text and nimble tools. Welcome! What is Plain Text Accounting ? Plain Text Accounting, or PTA for short, is a way of doing bookkeeping and acco…	6	912	March 9, 2024
What's your favorite PTA software? (reddit) News	2	52	December 26, 2025
.md as an output option General	11	81	December 26, 2025
Pre-budget analysis: detecting expense behavior General	1	52	December 24, 2025
Hledger-lit: another hledger plotting thingie General	6	75	December 24, 2025
Workflow for manual entries and merge with bank statement General	7	127	December 22, 2025
A trial of Discourse for Plain Text Accounting discussions Site	30	1572	December 21, 2025
Emacs fan starting with hledger and new to the forum General	9	169	December 21, 2025
Beancount-multi-file Emacs Lisp helpers / library to facilitate multiple files (and sets of books) News	2	26	December 20, 2025
Beancount txn parser/writer in Emacs Lisp? General emacs , beancount	4	60	December 20, 2025
Veryfi OCR API (and Emacs front-end for it) News	2	53	December 20, 2025
My Beancount books are 95% automatic after 3 years [2024] News beancount	1	132	December 20, 2025
Using hledger together with Excel General	14	97	December 20, 2025
The Richest Man in Babylon -- Save at least 10% General	0	19	December 19, 2025
CSV rule for default value if field value is missing/empty General	4	44	December 17, 2025
The Richest Man in Babylon and hledger General	4	50	December 17, 2025
Beancount plugin for UK tax reporting News beancount	1	102	December 14, 2025
Why I haven't closed out 2024 General	1	53	December 6, 2025
ANN: hledger 1.50.4 and 1.51 News hledger	0	37	December 5, 2025
Thanksgiving Thoughts News	0	27	November 28, 2025
Advice and suggestions for the upcoming end-of-year closing needed General	2	83	November 24, 2025
Tags for travel take two News	0	35	November 22, 2025
Show HN: Wealthfolio 2.0- Open source investment tracker News	0	52	November 22, 2025
Hlgo - A Go binding for hledger General	0	48	November 18, 2025
How hledger habits happen News	7	112	November 17, 2025
Plain Text Accounting with hledger (FOSS for All presentation) News hledger	0	86	November 9, 2025
To reconcile or not to reconcile? (reddit) General	13	125	November 7, 2025
Use hledger to track calories? News	0	42	November 7, 2025
Hledger in 10 Minutes: The Ultimate CLI Tool News hledger	1	88	November 7, 2025
Managing reimbursements General	3	125	November 5, 2025

Welcome to the Plain Text Accounting forum!

We are building clarity, balance and financial fitness together, with plain text and nimble tools. Welcome! What is Plain Text Accounting ? Plain Text Accounting, or PTA for short, is a way of doing bookkeeping and acco…