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	827	March 9, 2024
In addition to time and money General	0	20	August 22, 2025
Vim macros for Beancount News beancount	0	27	August 20, 2025
Open Banking and Payments Competition (hacker news) News	0	45	August 16, 2025
Iteration: a cycle of data entry, review, and correction General	1	29	August 15, 2025
Python script to validate files referenced in hledger comments General hledger	0	23	August 11, 2025
Connecting a museum cash register to modern day plain text accounting General	1	44	August 8, 2025
Indulging in ice cream leads to some thoughts about value General	5	70	August 7, 2025
How to adjust numbers in the journal with Emacs Calc General emacs	0	270	August 1, 2025
Beanquick - mac gui for creating beancount journal entries [reddit] News beancount	1	47	July 27, 2025
Managing reimbursements General	2	59	July 26, 2025
No water for one day leads to thoughts about plain text accounting General	0	45	July 25, 2025
How to treat a unit trust thats stapled to a share General	4	54	July 23, 2025
Golden oldie: The secret ingredient for a useful income statement report - repost General	1	88	July 20, 2025
Hledger helps with travel General	10	155	July 19, 2025
Tags transform trip transactions General	1	39	July 19, 2025
HostedBeans News beancount	1	39	July 18, 2025
Open source python tax calculator integrating with hledger [reddit] News hledger	0	25	July 11, 2025
Making sense of your finances with hledger reports – Teo Si-Yan News hledger	2	65	July 10, 2025
Paper and pen accounting General	0	43	July 10, 2025
Tricks and traps with membership plans General	4	95	July 5, 2025
Remembering how to record a cash transaction General	0	37	July 4, 2025
Incorrect bank statement General	1	58	June 24, 2025
Veryfi OCR API (and Emacs front-end for it) News	1	39	June 21, 2025
Using Khoj as my Personal AI Accountant [reddit] News ai	0	47	June 12, 2025
Anyone here experimenting with Claude Code and Windsurf for ledger and hledger here yet ? [reddit] News ai	0	44	June 12, 2025
LLM for categorisation [reddit] News ai	0	41	June 12, 2025
I just built Nummo: an AI-native bookkeeping app inspired by PTA [reddit] News ai	0	82	May 6, 2025
Moving beyond plaintext accounting – why I wrote my own double-entry bookkeeping tool [reddit] News	1	100	June 10, 2025
US Direct File: Saying Goodbye News	1	75	June 7, 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…