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Robust, fast, intuitive plain text accounting tool with CLI, TUI and web interfaces.

17 mentions on Hacker News by 8 people: 2 stories, 15 comments · first 2016-08-02 · latest 2025-09-04

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  1. …with 0.1% of them useful to any one person ? Perhaps region-specific collections could work. https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/tree/master/examples... is hledger's collection of CSV rules; these cover the basics of CSV conversion,…
    comment by simonmic · 2024-11-14 · in Eventually consistent plain text accounting
  2. …need to work with them over a period of time): Here's a fairly simple thousand line Makefile: https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/blob/2d35b1051/Makef... (and https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/blob/2d35b1051/Makef... ) that was…
    comment by simonmic · 2024-05-14 · in Show HN: Making GNU Make a better Task Runner
  3. I can offer this (warning, crufty real-world scripts ahead!): these make files and bash script ( https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/blob/137d825/Makefil... , https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/blob/137d825/Makefil... ,…
    comment by simonmic · 2023-12-30 · in Show HN: Just.sh – compiler that turns Justfiles into portable shell scripts
  4. …-v -f c.tsv cur:cal 2020-05 200 ++ $ hledger-ui --all -f c.tsv # explore with a TUI More at https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/tree/master/examples...
    comment by simonmic · 2023-06-28 · in A Syntax for Self-Tracking (2020)
  5. …https://github.com/simonmichael/shelltestrunner - Easy, repeatable testing of CLI programs/commands https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger - Robust, fast, intuitive plain text accounting tool with CLI, TUI and web interfaces…
    comment by simonmic · 2022-06-09 · in Dhall: A Gateway Drug to Haskell
  6. https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/issues/1684
    comment by smichael · 2021-09-08 · in Plain Text Accounting, a guide to Ledger and friends
  7. I had the same wish, you might be interested in https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/blob/master/bin/hled... However, reporting average expenses is easy, and sometimes enough..
    comment by smichael · 2021-01-12 · in Plain Text Accounting
  8. hledger author here, I can't think what all those would be - would appreciate your help at https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/issues/1081 if you have the time.
    comment by simonmic · 2020-05-31 · in Simple Personal Finance Tracking with GnuCash
  9. …features, but there's a bunch of work in progress on this area right now; more flexible valuation ( https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/issues/329 ) is a current focus and needs testers.. And, right now it should be possible to manage…
    comment by smichael · 2019-05-27 · in Hledger: Robust Plain Text Accounting
  10. …several that are specifically hledger-aware, but they might be all on Android so far, I forget. See https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/wiki/Mobile-apps for more on this topic.
    comment by smichael · 2019-05-27 · in Hledger: Robust Plain Text Accounting
  11. This answer in their FAQ contains some differences: https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/wiki/FAQ#features
    comment by PhilippGille · 2019-05-27 · in Hledger: Robust Plain Text Accounting
  12. I guess you haven’t seen https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/issues/1015 ?
    comment by smichael · 2019-05-27 · in Hledger: Robust Plain Text Accounting
  13. …It's fairly mature and has been around for a long time. They have a comparison on their site: https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/wiki/FAQ#features It also has a nice web interface out of the box: http://hledger.org/hledger-web.html…
    comment by BeetleB · 2018-08-03 · in An Emacs major mode for Hledger
  14. …uses to parse the downloaded CSV file from my bank to create a fairly detailed journal entry. ( https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/wiki/Convert%20CSV%2... ). The real added benefit for me is using git not only for my journal file, but…
    comment by brensmith · 2018-04-17 · in Using GnuCash as a Freelancer to Track Finances and Prepare Taxes
  15. …https://github.com/koalaman/shellcheck - ShellCheck, a static analysis tool for shell scripts https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger - The hledger command-line and web-based accounting tool, a Haskell rewrite of ledger.…
    comment by 0xmohit · 2016-08-02 · in Show HN: Learn Functional Programming Using Haskell