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by scottwick 1527 days ago
I've been using beancount [1] and beancount-import [2] for a while now and I'm liking it quite a bit. Every month I download CSVs of transaction data from my various accounts (checking, savings, credit card, etc.) and run beancount-import to categorize and reconcile transactions (I've written a few custom importers for this) into the ledger. I can then use bean-query (part of beancount) to perform SQL queries over the ledger data (i.e. expenses in the past month grouped by category). I feel like I'm just scratching the surface so far of what's possible with these tools but it has definitely helped me be more organized with my personal finances.

[1] https://github.com/beancount/beancount/

[2] https://github.com/jbms/beancount-import

1 comments

Awesome, thank you for sharing, truly appreciate it :)