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…	0	1002	March 5, 2024
ANN: hledger 2.0 preview 3 News hledger	1	31	June 26, 2026
“Lending is Meritorious and Should be Praised”: How The Fifth Lateran Council Unlocked Financial Theory News	1	17	June 26, 2026
Aspirational expenses News	0	8	June 26, 2026
[$25] [BOUNTY] [FEATURE] Add `hledger-flow` CLI `--conf` option that points to `hledger.conf` News	1	58	June 23, 2026
Beowulf, emotions, and plain text accounting News	0	20	June 19, 2026
How does one convert assets to comodities? General	3	45	June 17, 2026
Beowulf and hledger News	0	43	June 12, 2026
Capturing sub-accounts in Auto Postings General	1	47	June 11, 2026
Increased, decreased, and no benefit spending News	0	28	June 5, 2026
Is Ledger Cash-Based or Accrual Accounting? General	3	89	June 5, 2026
Accountant24: Local-first AI agent + hledger for personal accounting News ai , hledger	3	132	June 5, 2026
Lazy Beancount: a guide and repository to bootstrap Beancount experience News beancount	7	531	June 2, 2026
Hledger fan looks at spending vs. benefit News	0	46	May 29, 2026
Hledger-lit: another hledger plotting thingie General	11	299	May 27, 2026
Hledger + Obsidian: Plain-Text Personal Finance with Claude Code \| Mandalivia News ai , hledger	0	60	May 26, 2026
[$250] [BOUNTY] [TRACKING]: https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/issues/117 \| "wish: hledger should support transactions with timestamps, following ISO8601" News	0	61	May 22, 2026
Emergency Preparedness on a Budget News	0	25	May 22, 2026
Book recommendation: Emergency Preparedness and Personal Resilience General	2	65	May 16, 2026
Plaintextaccounting.org: spring cleaning, finance, sponsors, reddit News	0	78	May 15, 2026
Hledger and emergency preparedness News	1	36	May 15, 2026
How to setup Owners Equity for things in a Business? General	7	51	May 13, 2026
Missing thousands separator in HTML Report (hledger) General hledger	4	59	May 11, 2026
Small changes to ELisp code for importing CSV News	0	30	May 1, 2026
How do you keep your journal structure scalable over time? General	11	202	April 30, 2026
ANN: new tackler release (26.04.1) with accounts export News	0	49	April 26, 2026
Plutus: simple single-entry accounting using CSV News	0	55	April 26, 2026
Plain text has been around for decades and it’s here to stay (Hacker News) General	0	91	April 26, 2026
Automating csv entry into hledger General	0	36	April 24, 2026
Surebeans: a modern YNAB4 + hledger GUI News	1	126	April 21, 2026

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…