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Blogs & articles

A partial list from 2006 to 2024. For more recent posts, watch the PTA forum and its RSS feed.

2024

• Robert Nielsen: Don't make this planning mistake with hledger
• Robert Nielsen: Needs, strategies and spending
• Robert Nielsen: Creating a positive impact
• Robert Nielsen: Include was the key
• Robert Nielsen: The code to generate random hledger transactions
• Robert Nielsen: Working program to generate fake hledger transactions
• Robert Nielsen: Creating phony hledger transactions
• Robert Nielsen: First step in closing out 2023
• Robert Nielsen: Why I installed Ledger
• Robert Nielsen: Better Emacs = better hledger
• Serge Wroclawski: Implementing Profit First with Plain Text Accounting
• Serge Wroclawski: I use Profit First, the Theory of Constraints, and Plain Text Accounting to help my small business

2023

• Tavis Ormandy: Ledger
• Robert Nielsen: Fixing my mistake after accidentally adding pending transactions
• Robert Nielsen: A better desc(ription)
• Robert Nielsen: Upgrading to hledger 1.32, a book on graphic design, and ledger-mode-clean-buffer
• Ian Cross: Hacking on a Ledger
• Robert Nielsen: Fewer errors in reconciling
• Robert Nielsen: Using hledger for thanksgiving
• Jonathan Dowland: HLedger, regex matches and field assignments
• Robert Nielsen: Zooming out and in
• Knut Magnus Aasrud: You should track your finances in TOML
• Robert Nielsen: (Almost) everything you wanted to know about hledger transactions
• Robert Nielsen: Beginners corner: a basic hledger transaction
• Robert Nielsen: Why i created the hledger fan youtube channel
• Robert Nielsen: A not so capital idea for saving time
• Robert Nielsen: The richest hledger user in Babylon (part 3)
• Robert Nielsen: The richest hledger user in Babylon (part 2)
• Robert Nielsen: The richest hledger user in Babylon
• Robert Nielsen: Accounting before hledger
• Robert Nielsen: Atomic hledger habits
• Robert Nielsen: Hledger 1.31 now available, using “not,” awk part 2, podcast of the week
• Robert Nielsen: Trying my wings with awk
• Robert Nielsen: Making changes with and without sed
• Robert Nielsen: Three ways to make changes to an hledger data file
• Robert Nielsen: Good intentions or good results?
• Robert Nielsen: Why use hledger?
• Robert Nielsen: hledger book of the month
• Robert Nielsen: Moving forward by going backward
• Robert Nielsen: Invisible windows
• Robert Nielsen: Really review, really
• Robert Nielsen: Helping others see how useful hledger can be
• Robert Nielsen: Blog entries prior to june 2023 site update
• Beancount.io: Tracking real estate in Beancount
• Jonathan Dowland: Separate hledgers
• Josh Cunningham: Scratching an Itch: Command Line Budgeting
• Jonathan Dowland: date warping in HLedger
• Jonathan Dowland: HLedger, 1 year on

2022

• Jonathan Dowland: eventual consistency
• Jonathan Dowland: dues (or blues)
• Jonathan Dowland: hledger

2021

• Jonathan Dowland: hledger footguns
• Arsen Arsenović: Keeping track of finances from many places
• Zoran Zaric: Budgeting for annual expenses with Hledger
• Duarte O.Carmo: Hacking on my finances (Part 2: Beancount on Beanstalk)
• Red S: The Five-Minute Ledger Update

2020

• Duarte O.Carmo: Hacking on my finances
• Conversations in Code: Episode 3 / Introduction to Plain Text Accounting [podcast]
• Peter Hogg: Reconciling Ledger
• Peter Hogg: Receipts and Ledger
• Peter Hogg: Tracking Cash with Ledger
• Peter Hogg: Organizing Ledger
• Mari Donkers: KMyMoney to HLedger conversion
• Charles Hoffman: Plain Text Accounting
• Charles Hoffman: Fat Free Accounting: Ledger
• Lee Yingtong Li: Using selenium to scrape/import bank transactions for ledger-cli
• Lee Yingtong Li: ledger-pyreport: Formal accounting reports for ledger-cli
• Lee Yingtong Li: Incorrect accounting of unrealised gains in ledger-cli
• Christian Egli: Quick and dirty PDF reports for Plain Text Accounting

2019

• Lee Yingtong Li: FIFO inventory with ledger-cli
• Amitai Burstein: Why We Chose Plain Text Accounting with Hledger
• Budgeting with ledger-cli while tracking used points
• Pete Keen: Automatic Insurance
• Pete Keen: Automatic Investing
• Pete Keen: Automatic Cash Management
• Pete Keen: Automatic Finances
• John Sullivan: Answering questions with accounting: Reimbursements

2018

• Felix Crux: Tracking Accounts Jointly and Separately
• Pepijn Looije: Real World Ledger part 1: Weighing Eggs in Baskets
• Zoran Zaric: Depreciation in Personal Finance with Hledger
• Zoran Zaric: Tracking Investments in Lots with Hledger
• Michael Walker: Currency Conversion
• LWN: Counting beans - and more - with Beancount
• Michael Walker: Personal Finance
• Siddhant Goel: Managing Personal Finances using Python

2017

• Michael Walker: I Need A Budget
• Accounting for the simple minds with plain text accounting
• S.M. Oliva: Inventory, Part I: Will It Probate?
• S.M. Oliva: A Simple First Account
• S.M. Oliva: The Basics of hledger
• S.M. Oliva: Introduction to Command Line Probate
• LWN: Restarting the free accounting search
• Michael Walker: Visualise your finances with hledger, InfluxDB, and Grafana

2016

• Felix Crux: Accrual vs. Cash Basis Accounting
• bsilvereagle: Envelope Budgeting with ledger
• Felix Crux: Tracking Reimbursable Expenses
• Felix Crux: Separate Your Journals
• Felix Crux: Reporting Special Events Separately From Regular Spending
• Felix Crux: Create a .ledgerrc (Ledger Practices series)
• Marcin Borkowski: Ledger – virtual postings aka envelopes
• Alex Johnstone: Managing my personal finances with beancount

2015

• Pete Keen: Program Your Finances: Algorithmic Savings
• Pete Keen: Program Your Finances: Envelope Budgeting
• Stefano Rodighiero: hledger-dupes

2014

• Matthew Turland: Ledger basics and habits

2013

• Simon Michael: What is hledger?
• Simon Michael: More on ledger
• Simon Michael: Introducing hledger!

2012

• Joey Hess: hledger
• Gene Goykhman: An Alternative to QuickBooks
• LWN: The accounting quest: Ledger
• Pete Keen: A Robust Reporting System for Ledger

2011

• Pete Keen: Program your Finances: Automated Transactions
• Clint Adams: Accounting at SFLC
• Pete Keen: Program your Finances: Vacation Tracking
• Pete Keen: Program your Finances: Reporting for Fun and Profit

2010

• Pete Keen: Program your Finances: Command-line Accounting
• Christine Spang: [h]ledger rocks my world

2009

• советы: Ledger — бухучёт в командной строке (english)

2006

• Joe Barr: Ledger, the bran muffin of accounting tools

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