[Wronnay]

I love beancount

[alwillis]

> I love beancount

I've never used PTA software before, but I just tried beancount and I'm really liking it so far. Just set up my checking and savings accounts. The Vim syntax highlighting sealed the deal.

Looking forward to getting back on top of my finances…

[vagab0nd]

How does it compare to ledger-cli? I've been using ledger for a long time, but heard good things about beancount and hledger.

[pmcginn]

I haven't used ledger-cli much; I ruled it out pretty quickly when I was testing PTA software. For me, I loved the reporting and hledger-add for entering transactions manually. As I learned to automate my input, I started to appreciate beancount's automatic strict enforcement, BQL, and fava web front-end. Then I learned some pandas and was able to replicate most of the hledger reporting I liked with my beancount data and some python scripts.

If I were in your shoes, my only question would be: am I happy with the output? If you are, I'd stick with ledger. If you're not, fava is pretty cool.

[simonmic]

For clarity: "hledger-add" might be a typo ? Or is it that you used Ledger, then hledger, then Beancount ?

[fkarg]

same. been using it for years now, and even wrote my own plugins for structures I used often