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	979	March 9, 2024
How to setup Owners Equity for things in a Business? General	7	16	May 13, 2026
Missing thousands separator in HTML Report (hledger) General hledger	4	29	May 11, 2026
Accountant24: Local-first AI agent + hledger for personal accounting News ai , hledger	0	23	May 11, 2026
Book recommendation: Emergency Preparedness and Personal Resilience General	0	23	May 8, 2026
Small changes to ELisp code for importing CSV News	0	21	May 1, 2026
How do you keep your journal structure scalable over time? General	11	127	April 30, 2026
ANN: new tackler release (26.04.1) with accounts export News	0	37	April 26, 2026
Plutus: simple single-entry accounting using CSV News	0	44	April 26, 2026
Plain text has been around for decades and it’s here to stay (Hacker News) General	2	66	April 26, 2026
Automating csv entry into hledger General	0	24	April 24, 2026
Surebeans: a modern YNAB4 + hledger GUI News	1	99	April 21, 2026
Using hledger together with Excel General	15	319	April 20, 2026
Interactive BeanQuery Manual News beancount	0	29	April 17, 2026
Finding out how much we gave last year General	0	22	April 17, 2026
Some new calculations re a membership program General	0	26	April 10, 2026
ANN: hledger 1.52, hledger 2.0 preview 1 News hledger	3	140	April 8, 2026
Accounting for a Mutual Fund, part 6 - pros and cons General	0	32	April 3, 2026
Accounting for a mutual fund, part 5 -- split shares General	0	29	March 27, 2026
Accounting for a mutual fund, part 4 -- T-bills General	0	30	March 20, 2026
Schemas for data that would be easy to import to PTA systems General beancount , ai , hledger , ledger	2	70	March 17, 2026
Customize account2 of CSV rules depending on the file parsed General hledger	10	71	March 13, 2026
Accounting for a mutual fund -- part 3 (money market funds) General	0	28	March 13, 2026
V accounts not found General	1	43	March 12, 2026
Lazy Beancount: a guide and repository to bootstrap Beancount experience News beancount	6	443	March 6, 2026
Accounting for a mutual fund, part 2 General	1	35	March 6, 2026
Web interface for hledger General	2	118	March 4, 2026
My first steps in tracking a mutual fund in hledger General	3	93	March 2, 2026
Hledger: multi bank approach General hledger	6	140	March 1, 2026
Hledger-textual: just another terminal user interface for managing hledger journal (reddit) News hledger	0	105	February 27, 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…