[thisisthenewme]

I recently started using Ledger this year, and I've been really impressed with its utility for me. I think, for my personal needs, https://pypi.org/project/ledger-autosync/ is a must-have. I don't want create my own transactions, and with the autosync extension, I can simply export my bank transactions as QFX files and then import them into my ledger file. In the past, I struggled to accurately track my spending, and typical banking apps were either slow or lacked good querying capabilities. Now, I can easily budget, track purchases, calculate my worth across multiple accounts, and more.

I guess similar results might be possible with other accounting tool but Ledger perfectly meets my requirements. Also, it integrates pretty well with Emacs and I get to check my reports from there.

[globular-toast]

It looks like ledger-autosync isn't very good at guessing what accounts to use. I wrote my own machine learning thing to do that. However my scripts are a hodgepodge with manual work required. I wonder if I could integrate the machine learning aspect into autosync...

[bbor]

Lmao I wrote my own csv translator using regex, because I thought this was a paid feature of stuff like Plaid only. You’re a lifesaver! How do you download your statements though? That’s still a small sticking point for me, and it sounds like you still need to individually go to each bank and pull each statement. Maybe I just have too many credit cards lol