Mastodawn

Playing with #beancount and its web interface #fava to keep track of our little magic club finances. Nice and simple for our few transactions I think. Might be annoying if it’s only on my laptop though so may have to sync it somewhere. 🤔

I was looking at self hosted software options but I think they might be overkill.

Baptiste BCA Apr 16

Connaissez-vous des entreprises FR qui utilisent le principe de PTA (Plain text accounting) ?

Qui dit entreprise, dit comptabilité à double partie avec suivi des tiers.

Je vois des repos de ressources personnelles, mais ce sont majoritairement des importateurs bancaires.

Aucune trace d'entreprise qui utiliserait ce système (Pour toute ou partie d'une tenue comptable).

Avec ce que ça implique en obligation (FEC notamment)

#plaintextaccounting #ledgercli #hledger #beancount

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Tom Sheppard Apr 16

I’m trying to move away from #Banktivity. #GnuCash was a disaster. I heard about #Beancount but I was skeptical; how could a flat text file have any performance? But I was willing to concede they knew something I didn’t. I fought like hell to import my QIF export and although there were problems, enough worked for me to try it out. It is stunningly … slooow … as expected. It takes 8(!) seconds on an M4 Mac mini to open a single transaction! I deleted the whole awful mess. Still searching.

ErikP Mar 1

Monatliche Zinsgutschrift auf dem Tagesgeld-Konto. Selber (mikriger) Zinsbetrag wie im letzten Monat. Aber ein Cent (0,01€) mehr Kapitalertragssteuer? WTF???

Hi Caleb, I'm so excited to find that I'm not the only person interested in the breakdown of #beancount or other #plaintextaccounting

My current progress: Given this receipt

https://github.com/Endle/beanbeaver/blob/master/demo/receipt_groups/tnt_20251202/receipt_20260217_200222.jpg

It generates such beancount output:

https://github.com/Endle/beanbeaver/blob/master/demo/receipt_groups/tnt_20251202/2025-12-02_t_t_supermarket_32_70.beancount

beanbeaver/demo/receipt_groups/tnt_20251202/receipt_20260217_200222.jpg at master · Endle/beanbeaver

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Zhenbo Li Feb 17

After almost two months, I’ve finished first version of #BeanBeaver: it parses grocery receipts into #Beancount records.

https://github.com/Endle/beanbeaver

I hope I’m not the only person who cares about a grocery-by-item breakdown 🦫

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Caleb Maclennan Feb 11

After bouncing around ideas and several experiments, I've decided to launch a new project with the goal of creating CLI tooling that facilitates receipt handling for #plaintextaccounting workflows. LLM based OCR and data extraction has improved to the point that I believe it will be possible to make bulk data extraction useful. If you have ideas, want to contribute, or just want to follow along jump in:

https://codeberg.org/plaintextaccounting/acceptarium

#hledger #ledgercli #beancount #llm #ocr

acceptarium

Tools to facilitate scanning receipts, extracting useful data, archiving the assets, and importing the results into plain text accounting systems.

Codeberg.org

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Caleb Maclennan Feb 11

@nobodyinperson I'm asking you first because involving #gitannex would be high on my priority list. Really this wouldn't need to be #hledger specific as it could just as well be paired with #ledgercli or #beancount either directly or via CSV or whatever. I'm not a huge GitLab fan these days but can do it if you prefer. Codeberg seems more aligned or GitHub having the advantage of contributor pool. Thoughts?

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griff Jan 25

To be clear, #ActualBudget was REALLY getting good when I left - felt like jumping ship right as it hit its stride

They've added custom reports with Excel-style formulas, a burndown chart, and the UI keeps improving. Genuinely great #opensource budgeting software

But as a #SoftwareEngineer, the scriptability of #beancount is a huge win. I can pipe data through #fzf for fuzzy account selection, write #Python scripts that understand my finances, and build weird custom tools that would be impossible in a GUI app

Sometimes you just need to "grep" your money

#plainTextAccounting #CLI #devTools #personalFinance #fava #budgeting

griff Jan 25

Made the switch from #ActualBudget to #beancount for my personal finances

The ecosystem is nice
- #fava, #beangulp for imports, #beanahead for recurring transactions, #favaCustomDashboards for charts, and #favaInvestor for portfolio tracking

Also went overboard with custom stuff:
- PDF importers with #ML payee/account prediction
- Custom linters for validation
- Forked #favaEnvelope for envelope budgeting
- #Makefile with 28 targets for price fetching to #FIRE calcs

#plainTextAccounting is great when you can just write #Python to solve your edge cases

#personalFinance #doubleEntryAccounting #CLI #fintech #devlife