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	1008	March 5, 2024
Tagging pay-period with inclusive date-range General hledger	2	6	July 22, 2026
How to organize all the tags in Hledger (including sub-tags)? General hledger	4	27	July 21, 2026
ANTLR grammar for hledger format (partial) support News hledger	1	20	July 20, 2026
The Main Thing News	1	39	July 18, 2026
Small inventory and book keeping system with hledger General	2	51	July 17, 2026
Auto rules, Bank use-case General hledger	1	43	July 11, 2026
Is AI slop killing the Beancount community? (beancount mail list) News beancount , ai	1	80	July 10, 2026
CSV helped me News	0	36	July 10, 2026
Accountant24: Local-first AI agent + hledger for personal accounting News ai , hledger	5	173	July 9, 2026
Basic Procedure for Accrual Accounting when making a product and selling it? General	3	86	July 7, 2026
Financial therapy General	0	45	July 5, 2026
Financial Illiteracy Education: How We Teach Bad Financial Habits General	0	35	July 5, 2026
Work flow improvement with LEDGER_FILE News	0	32	July 3, 2026
ANN: hledger 2.0 preview 3 News hledger	1	84	June 26, 2026
“Lending is Meritorious and Should be Praised”: How The Fifth Lateran Council Unlocked Financial Theory News	1	35	June 26, 2026
Aspirational expenses News	0	23	June 26, 2026
[$25] [BOUNTY] [FEATURE] Add `hledger-flow` CLI `--conf` option that points to `hledger.conf` News	1	69	June 23, 2026
Beowulf, emotions, and plain text accounting News	0	27	June 19, 2026
How does one convert assets to comodities? General	3	64	June 17, 2026
Beowulf and hledger News	0	51	June 12, 2026
Capturing sub-accounts in Auto Postings General	1	53	June 11, 2026
Increased, decreased, and no benefit spending News	0	32	June 5, 2026
Is Ledger Cash-Based or Accrual Accounting? General	3	99	June 5, 2026
Lazy Beancount: a guide and repository to bootstrap Beancount experience News beancount	7	566	June 2, 2026
Hledger fan looks at spending vs. benefit News	0	48	May 29, 2026
Hledger-lit: another hledger plotting thingie General	11	308	May 27, 2026
Hledger + Obsidian: Plain-Text Personal Finance with Claude Code \| Mandalivia News ai , hledger	0	70	May 26, 2026
[$250] [BOUNTY] [TRACKING]: https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/issues/117 \| "wish: hledger should support transactions with timestamps, following ISO8601" News	0	66	May 22, 2026
Emergency Preparedness on a Budget News	0	37	May 22, 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…