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at all before aside from earlier attempts of using mint. Beancounts documentation ( https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RaondTJCS_IUPBHFNdT8oqFK... ) is great but is dense and spread out a bit, thankfully their email list ( https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/beancount ) is pretty active and helpful. - The ledger file will get big, but it's easier than having multiple files. Use syntax highlighting & more importantly code folding. And no you don't have to be an emacs/vim nerd to do this (i'm using sublime FWIW). - There's migrators from mint/etc. but those aren't perfect because the data from mint isn't always perfect. I went through the exercise of categorizing many transactions from earlier years. It's a masochistic option but really wanted some historical data. Ultimately you'll find yourself refactoring/re-categorizing things over time, and because it's in a git repo you won't be afraid to be ruthless about this. - Writing your own importers is part of the learning curve. You might find some odd ones on github but you ultimately want to write your own - the examples in beancount's source code are a good starting point. You don't have to do it for everything, just the ones that are too unwieldy for tracking manual transactions. - I'm still wrapping my head around how to leverage beancount to function as a budgeting / forecasting tool. Several friends use YNAB (there's also financier.io) instead for those needs.