JauneBaguette2d ago
Particulièrement cocasse de voir comment les trois mastodons du #PlainTextAccounting – à savoir #ledger, #hledger, et #beancount – n'ont aucun souci à reposer sur de l'IA-gen. J'suis à deux doigts de faire un amalgame entre les gens qui prennent le temps d'analyser leurs ressources et le capitalisme puant.
ErikPMar 1

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

#beancount

Show threadZhenbo LiFeb 18

@alerque

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 LiFeb 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 MaclennanFeb 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.

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Show threadCaleb MaclennanFeb 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?
Show threadgriffJan 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

griffJan 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

Zhenbo LiJan 23
Vibe Coding 了一个扫描 Receipt 生成 #beancount 的工具，现在雏形跑起来了，感觉这开发效率有点快得可怕了
D. MoonfireJan 22

Last night, I did monthly1 accounting for my publishing business. And since it was the beginning of the year, I figured it would be an easy2 task to finally stop regenerating my accounting data from source .xlsx and .csv files from 2002 and just close off each year into a final .beancount.

It did not go well2.

I really need to get to the commission, but I'm going to try fixing it for a few hours before giving up until 2027.

#PlainTextAccounting #Beancount

  • Two months, I skipped December because I couldn't find the energy. ↩︎

  • I didn't do it because it was easy, I did it because I thought it would be easy. ↩︎ ↩︎