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	884	March 9, 2024
How hledger habits happen News	5	49	November 16, 2025
Workflow for manual entries and merge with bank statement General	5	67	November 13, 2025
Hledger in 10 Minutes: The Ultimate CLI Tool News hledger	1	67	November 7, 2025
[Beginner question] Help needed for a French chart of account General hledger	4	73	November 4, 2025
Double-Entry Bookkeeping for US Healthcare General beancount	0	60	November 2, 2025
[pta novice] Want to track Universal Credit deduction but don't know how (reddit) General	1	32	November 2, 2025
When is PTA not an optimal choice? General	2	81	October 25, 2025
I made an HLedger MCP server which I find surprisingly helpful! (reddit) News ai , hledger	1	116	October 12, 2025
Examples of negative balances General	4	74	October 10, 2025
How often do you write/import your transactions? General	25	734	January 7, 2025
Deep bow of gratitude and respect to everyone supporting hledger (reddit) General hledger	4	140	January 6, 2025
Hledger helps with travel General	10	217	July 19, 2025
Is it possible to combine 2 csv transactions into 1 using hledger? General	7	67	September 30, 2025
Must we close accounts? …and why? General	8	219	January 22, 2025
Numbering of transactions? General hledger	13	211	June 1, 2025
How to adjust numbers in the journal with Emacs Calc General emacs	0	298	August 1, 2025
Should we remove the reddit category? Site	7	255	March 12, 2024
Combining multiple hledger reports into a printed document on 8-1/2 x 11 inch paper General	6	180	March 28, 2025
Moving beyond plaintext accounting – why I wrote my own double-entry bookkeeping tool [reddit] News	1	116	June 10, 2025
Do you have README file? General	3	95	February 5, 2025
An account has type asset. Why does strict mode disagree with it? General	4	56	September 28, 2025
Favorite Text Editors General editors	18	464	March 24, 2024
ANN: hledger 1.50 News hledger	0	55	September 3, 2025
Chart of accounts - How does yours look? General	15	1306	December 22, 2024
ANN: hledger 1.42 News hledger	1	85	March 13, 2025
Using Tags in hledger.journal General hledger	7	176	January 8, 2025
Wow. Others exist! General	4	173	January 22, 2025
Exporting from hledger to Beancount frustration General	9	138	February 10, 2025
Plain Text Accounting with Emacs - Matt Maguire News hledger	1	127	May 31, 2025

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…