andyreagan.com

Beancount

Backlinks: Personal finance

Plain-text double-entry accounting. Incredibly flexible and detailed.

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…

<2026-01-02 Fri>

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.

Last modified: January 04, 2026