Plain Text Accounting
plaintextaccounting.orgUtilizes plain text files and scriptable, command-line-friendly software for bookkeeping/accounting, offering full control over data. Popular tools include Ledger, hledger, and Beancount among others, providing a flexible and vendor-independent approach to accounting.
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The plaintextaccounting.org website, a portal to the world of Plain Text Accounting.
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- LicenseGPL-3.0
- Created10 Feb 16
- Primary languageCSS
- Size2,200 KB
- Stars612
- Forks88
- Watchers612
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Recent Commits
Simon Michael(02 Sept 26)
finance: simplify rules using latest hledger main
Simon Michael(02 Sept 26)
finance: running balance, general journal: update with latest hledger main
Simon Michael(02 Sept 26)
finance: General journal: show credit/debit instead of amount
Simon Michael(02 Sept 26)
clean past expense descriptions
Simon Michael(02 Sept 26)
discourse.journal -> expenses.journal
Simon Michael(02 Sept 26)
updates journal & reports
Simon Michael(02 Sept 26)
update, simplify scripts github sponsor data is now prepared elsewhere
Simon Michael(25 Aug 26)
beancount-zakat
Simon Michael(17 Aug 26)
ai: consistent punctuation
Simon Michael(17 Aug 26)
ai: edit descriptions
Simon Michael(17 Aug 26)
Software: move Distros/setups up AI was too prominent
Simon Michael(17 Aug 26)
ai: edit descriptions
Rudd-O(17 Aug 26)
Add Beancount AI entry to index.md
Tim Derzhavets(16 Aug 26)
Add Countbean to the AI section A Claude Code plugin and MCP server for Beancount.
Simon Michael(13 Aug 26)
cleanup
Simon Michael(13 Aug 26)
journal, reports updates
Simon Michael(13 Aug 26)
scripts cleanup
Simon Michael(13 Aug 26)
move finance reports to a hledger.conf file And set the main journal file there also. -n will be needed sometimes. (Requires hledger main.)
Simon Michael(08 Aug 26)
hledger-tui
Simon Michael(30 Jul 26)
a star
Simon Michael(30 Jul 26)
ruby ledger: consistent linking style
Simon Michael(30 Jul 26)
whitespace fix
A'buroos A'abdul K'ashif(30 Jul 26)
Fix formatting and add Ruby as well as Ruby on the Rails Ledger refer… (#161) * Fix formatting and add Ruby as well as Ruby on the Rails Ledger reference Create a new branch and start a pull request Changes from https://github.com/aburoos/ A'buroos A'abdul K'ashif * Final Change - Add Ruby Ledger Rails to the list of projects - UI, web
John Frandsen(05 Jul 26)
Add beancount-openbanking-io to Data conversion/import list
Simon Michael(03 Jul 26)
beanviz
Simon Michael(20 Jun 26)
presentation: Buchhaltung, Hacker Art
dlmcpaul(18 Jun 26)
Added MyMoney Web UI App
Simon Michael(08 Jun 26)
ledgerkit; tare money update
Simon Michael(04 Jun 26)
FinancialBeancount, Finzytrack
Simon Michael(28 May 26)
cash or accrual: improve content, name
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- IP Address172.67.180.85
- LocationSan Francisco,California,United States of America,NA
- ISPCloudFlare Inc.
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