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	989	March 9, 2024
Lazy Beancount: a guide and repository to bootstrap Beancount experience News beancount	7	489	June 2, 2026
Hledger fan looks at spending vs. benefit News	0	31	May 29, 2026
Is Ledger Cash-Based or Accrual Accounting? General	2	41	May 28, 2026
[$25] [BOUNTY] [FEATURE] Add `hledger-flow` CLI `--conf` option that points to `hledger.conf` News	0	25	May 27, 2026
Hledger-lit: another hledger plotting thingie General	11	230	May 27, 2026
Hledger + Obsidian: Plain-Text Personal Finance with Claude Code \| Mandalivia News ai , hledger	0	46	May 26, 2026
[$250] [BOUNTY] [TRACKING]: https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/issues/117 \| "wish: hledger should support transactions with timestamps, following ISO8601" News	0	47	May 22, 2026
Emergency Preparedness on a Budget News	0	18	May 22, 2026
Book recommendation: Emergency Preparedness and Personal Resilience General	2	54	May 16, 2026
Plaintextaccounting.org: spring cleaning, finance, sponsors, reddit News	0	64	May 15, 2026
Accountant24: Local-first AI agent + hledger for personal accounting News ai , hledger	2	85	May 15, 2026
Hledger and emergency preparedness News	1	29	May 15, 2026
How to setup Owners Equity for things in a Business? General	7	40	May 13, 2026
Missing thousands separator in HTML Report (hledger) General hledger	4	52	May 11, 2026
Small changes to ELisp code for importing CSV News	0	25	May 1, 2026
How do you keep your journal structure scalable over time? General	11	157	April 30, 2026
ANN: new tackler release (26.04.1) with accounts export News	0	47	April 26, 2026
Plutus: simple single-entry accounting using CSV News	0	51	April 26, 2026
Plain text has been around for decades and it’s here to stay (Hacker News) General	2	82	April 26, 2026
Automating csv entry into hledger General	0	30	April 24, 2026
Surebeans: a modern YNAB4 + hledger GUI News	1	116	April 21, 2026
Using hledger together with Excel General	15	360	April 20, 2026
Interactive BeanQuery Manual News beancount	0	43	April 17, 2026
Finding out how much we gave last year General	0	28	April 17, 2026
Some new calculations re a membership program General	0	28	April 10, 2026
ANN: hledger 1.52, hledger 2.0 preview 1 News hledger	3	156	April 8, 2026
Accounting for a Mutual Fund, part 6 - pros and cons General	0	35	April 3, 2026
Accounting for a mutual fund, part 5 -- split shares General	0	31	March 27, 2026
Accounting for a mutual fund, part 4 -- T-bills General	0	31	March 20, 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…