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	891	March 9, 2024
Why I haven't closed out 2024 General	1	18	December 6, 2025
CSV rule for default value if field value is missing/empty General	1	17	December 3, 2025
Hledger in 10 Minutes: The Ultimate CLI Tool News hledger	1	77	November 7, 2025
How hledger habits happen News	7	96	November 17, 2025
Hlgo - A Go binding for hledger General	0	35	November 18, 2025
[Beginner question] Help needed for a French chart of account General hledger	4	75	November 4, 2025
Advice and suggestions for the upcoming end-of-year closing needed General	2	64	November 24, 2025
When is PTA not an optimal choice? General	2	89	October 25, 2025
I made an HLedger MCP server which I find surprisingly helpful! (reddit) News ai , hledger	1	128	October 12, 2025
Double-Entry Bookkeeping for US Healthcare General beancount	0	64	November 2, 2025
[pta novice] Want to track Universal Credit deduction but don't know how (reddit) General	1	33	November 2, 2025
Examples of negative balances General	4	80	October 10, 2025
How often do you write/import your transactions? General	25	743	January 7, 2025
Deep bow of gratitude and respect to everyone supporting hledger (reddit) General hledger	4	144	January 6, 2025
Hledger helps with travel General	10	241	July 19, 2025
Must we close accounts? …and why? General	8	229	January 22, 2025
Should we remove the reddit category? Site	7	255	March 12, 2024
Numbering of transactions? General hledger	13	224	June 1, 2025
Hledger, VS Code and GitHub Copilot works well together General ai , hledger	1	55	October 4, 2025
Combining multiple hledger reports into a printed document on 8-1/2 x 11 inch paper General	6	182	March 28, 2025
Do you have README file? General	3	98	February 5, 2025
How to adjust numbers in the journal with Emacs Calc General emacs	0	301	August 1, 2025
Moving beyond plaintext accounting – why I wrote my own double-entry bookkeeping tool [reddit] News	1	117	June 10, 2025
Is it possible to combine 2 csv transactions into 1 using hledger? General	7	74	September 30, 2025
Favorite Text Editors General editors	18	470	March 24, 2024
Chart of accounts - How does yours look? General	15	1338	December 22, 2024
A trial of Discourse for Plain Text Accounting discussions Site	28	1530	October 6, 2025
An account has type asset. Why does strict mode disagree with it? General	4	59	September 28, 2025
ANN: hledger 1.42 News hledger	1	86	March 13, 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…