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	936	March 9, 2024
Limabean - a new implementation of Beancount in Rust and Clojure (reddit) General	0	15	February 8, 2026
Improving Git/Magit workflow with vc-auto-commit General	3	21	February 8, 2026
Plain Text Accounting for Small Businesses General	0	14	February 8, 2026
Properly escaping spaces in filenames General hledger	3	34	January 30, 2026
A surprising benefit from having an emergency fund General	0	32	January 30, 2026
Announcing rustledger - Beancount reimagined in Rust News	0	74	January 29, 2026
1099-DA - reconciling with PTA General	0	39	January 24, 2026
Hledger cash transactions and envelope budgeting General hledger	4	76	January 23, 2026
Following my own advice about starting slow General	0	47	January 23, 2026
Insert code field in existing journal General hledger	3	42	January 23, 2026
New PTA app: rustledger News beancount	0	80	January 21, 2026
Why my cash tracking method works for me General	0	55	January 16, 2026
Hledger import overzealous General	3	62	January 16, 2026
Hledger-lit: another hledger plotting thingie General	8	146	January 12, 2026
Currency Tracker plugin for Fava News beancount	0	53	January 9, 2026
The aim is clarity General	0	50	January 9, 2026
Opening and closing balances when tracking a house value General hledger	4	82	January 9, 2026
Veryfi OCR API (and Emacs front-end for it) News	3	91	January 6, 2026
One Number I Trust: Plain-Text Accounting for a Multi-Currency Household News beancount	2	110	January 6, 2026
2025: The Year in Review Site	2	114	January 2, 2026
10 years of personal finances in plain text files News beancount	0	109	January 2, 2026
What's your favorite PTA software? (reddit) News	2	143	December 26, 2025
.md as an output option General	11	124	December 26, 2025
Pre-budget analysis: detecting expense behavior General	1	77	December 24, 2025
Workflow for manual entries and merge with bank statement General	7	178	December 22, 2025
A trial of Discourse for Plain Text Accounting discussions Site	30	1602	December 21, 2025
Emacs fan starting with hledger and new to the forum General	9	200	December 21, 2025
Beancount-multi-file Emacs Lisp helpers / library to facilitate multiple files (and sets of books) News	2	38	December 20, 2025
Beancount txn parser/writer in Emacs Lisp? General emacs , beancount	4	66	December 20, 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…