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

any #beancount or #fava users here? i’ve been wrestling with a fava-envelope bug for days and unfortunately, i think i’ve hit the upper ceiling of my limited python ability 😭 this is the issue i’ve filed on the repo if anyone’s able to help: https://github.com/polarmutex/fava-envelope/issues/107 i’d be eternally grateful

the initial installation simply fails, what i’ve had success doing is building from source in a virtual environment (homebred-installed python). the plugin registers but doesn’t render any information

hopefully fosstodon gets this to the right people! thanks so much in advance 🙏

#fosstodon @fosstodon #OpenSource #PlainTextAccounting #python

#Beancount

This is the best double-entry personal accounting system, leaving any others standing in dust. The core of the system is a text database, which I manage in VSCode with the related extension, and of course I store the file in Github private repo.

From Beancount is derived excellent graphical reports system called #Fava - you don't have to use it, but it's also very cool.

For me, the spin-off value from Beancount is that, being a text database, it also functions as my diary. I can and do annotate it. My journal begins in 2009 and is uninterrupted. Those were important years of my family life, all recorded in perhaps obsessive detail.

https://beancount.io/
https://github.com/beancount/beancount
https://beancount.github.io/fava/