Plain Text Accounting forum

Topic	Replies	Views	Activity
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	962	March 9, 2024
Accounting for a mutual fund, part 5 -- split shares General	0	11	March 27, 2026
Accounting for a mutual fund, part 4 -- T-bills General	0	24	March 20, 2026
Schemas for data that would be easy to import to PTA systems General beancount , ai , hledger , ledger	2	48	March 17, 2026
Customize account2 of CSV rules depending on the file parsed General hledger	10	59	March 13, 2026
Accounting for a mutual fund -- part 3 (money market funds) General	0	23	March 13, 2026
V accounts not found General	1	36	March 12, 2026
Lazy Beancount: a guide and repository to bootstrap Beancount experience News beancount	6	383	March 6, 2026
Accounting for a mutual fund, part 2 General	1	30	March 6, 2026
Web interface for hledger General	2	76	March 4, 2026
My first steps in tracking a mutual fund in hledger General	3	73	March 2, 2026
Hledger: multi bank approach General hledger	6	103	March 1, 2026
Hledger-textual: just another terminal user interface for managing hledger journal (reddit) News hledger	0	79	February 27, 2026
Hallucinating history of hledger General	1	59	February 27, 2026
Some words about LLMs and Agents News beancount , ai	0	62	February 27, 2026
Auto-credit an account and see how I am reimboursed? General	4	54	February 25, 2026
Docker images for hledger-mcp News hledger , ai	1	46	February 25, 2026
Have several journals? General	2	53	February 23, 2026
Tax filing tips for US cryptocurrency users (/r/cryptocurrency) News	0	24	February 23, 2026
Support added to Go Ledger for importing various common formats News beancount	0	23	February 22, 2026
Ways to sanitize payee names General	5	84	February 22, 2026
Using (local) LLMs with hledger records and reports General hledger , ai	5	134	February 18, 2026
New to accounting -- book recommendations? General	4	85	February 17, 2026
How a broken floor lamp leads to some thought about transactions that never happen General	1	44	February 13, 2026
Limabean - a new implementation of Beancount in Rust and Clojure (reddit) General	0	44	February 8, 2026
Improving Git/Magit workflow with vc-auto-commit General	3	48	February 8, 2026
Plain Text Accounting for Small Businesses General	0	63	February 8, 2026
Properly escaping spaces in filenames General hledger	3	55	January 30, 2026
A surprising benefit from having an emergency fund General	0	58	January 30, 2026
Announcing rustledger - Beancount reimagined in Rust News	0	142	January 29, 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…