Beancount
Backlinks: Personal finance
Plain-text double-entry accounting. Incredibly flexible and detailed.
- Beancount code: https://github.com/beancount/beancount.
- Beancount cheat sheet from documentation.
Beancount black third party file formatter(deprecated).Refried: https://github.com/scauligi/refriedA collection of plugins and scripts for beancount and fava for monthly budgeting.(deprecated).
10 years of personal finances in plain text files
https://sgoel.dev/posts/10-years-of-personal-finances-in-plain-text-files/
Kudos, buddy! It's a lot of work. For him, 30-45 minutes per month.
He wrote a book about how to get started in Beancount: https://personalfinancespython.com/.
He has 20k postings over 10k transactions. I wonder where I'm at…
Accounting for computer scientists
Plain text accounting for a multi-currency household
https://lalitm.com/post/one-number-i-trust/
Super long post, and they were able to create a system that works.
Beancount is so flexible, building on top it is like building software…
Via HN.