Plain Text Accounting (PTA) (Hacker News 2024)

News
1
2 Likes
2

One of many interesting comments:

  • GitHub CoPilot is remarkably and shockingly good at working with ledger files. It will do the balance addition/subtraction on following lines almost perfectly. Also, if you need to manually enter a new line, you can often just enter a shortcut one-line comment and it’ll fill the entire entry, aka:

; 10/1/24 -$250 for new business cards

Although I'll never use it myself, I can see how this can be extremely helpful to some

3

Wasn’t this on Plain Text Accounting (PTA) (Hacker News 2024), instead

4

Oops. Different topic :sweat_smile: Should I delete and repost?

5

Sure, why not.

6

Actually, I saw an easy admin tool to do it. Done!

1 Like