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hledger

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

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What it is

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

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This week on Hacker News

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year17 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2016-08-02 17:34:11 UTC to 2025-09-04 09:55:40 UTC.

012342016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20162017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 2 submissions, 0 comments2025

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC220

What Hacker News says

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simonmic·Dec 30, 2023
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..., https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/blob/a3c300b/bake) were replaced by this roughly equivalent Justfile (https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/blob/137d825/Justfil...) (some old things were commented out, some new things were added). I'm only a few weeks in, and just has its own learning curve, but I'm very pleased overall. Cognitive load is down, usability is up, robustness is up. ("After many years with make and plain shell ... for scripting, just is better enough, and the goal of clean consolidated efficient project automation is so valuable, that I am relying on it even though it's not installed by defaul
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t.")
In Show HN: Just.sh – compiler that turns Justfiles into portable shell scripts
simonmic·Jun 28, 2023
I have tried some similar things. I like your approach and write-up a lot! You asked about tools. Well, from the "when you have a hammer" department.. you could use plain text accounting tools for some quick reporting wins. Some examples: If you have a.dat: 2020-05-28 18:41 Eat Pizza 2020-05-29 09:00 Slept with the window open 2020-05-29 09:00 Headaches This is close enough to hledger's timedot format to do some reporting. Each line is interpreted as an empty transaction, which you could query by date or description: $ hledger -f timedot:a.dat print 2020-05-28 * 18:41 Eat Pizza 2020-05-29 * 09:00 Slept with the window open 2020-05-29 * 09:00 Headaches $ hledger -f timedot:a.dat print date:2020/5/28 2020-05-28 * 18:41 Eat Pizza $ hledger -f timedot:a.dat print desc:eat 2020-05-28 * 18:41 Eat Pizza You cou
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ld transform your data to a plain text accounting format, with quantities. Eg, make it TSV: $ perl -pe '$c=0; $c++ while $c < 2 && s/ /\t/' a.dat > c.tsv $ cat c.tsv 2020-05-28 18:41 Eat Pizza 2020-05-29 09:00 Slept with the window open 2020-05-29 09:00 Headaches and use hledger CSV conversion rules to customise and enrich it: $ cat c.tsv.rules fields date, time, description # save the time as a tag comment time:%time # count each item as one "event" by default account1 (events) amount1 1 # special cases if pizza account1 (food) amount1 200 cal Now you have a (single entry) accounting journal: $ hledger -f c.tsv print 2020-05-28 Eat Pizza ; time:18:41 (food) 200 cal 2020-05-29 Slept with the window open ; time:09:00 (events) 1 2020-05-29 Headaches ; time:09:00 (events) 1 Allowing quantity reports: $ hledger -f c.tsv balance -MATS cur:cal Balance changes in 2020-05: || May Total Average ======++=========================== food || 200 cal 200 cal 200 cal ------++--------------------------- || 200 cal 200 cal 200 cal $ hledger -f c.tsv activity -D desc:headache 2020-05-28 2020-05-29 * $ hledger-bar -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...
In A Syntax for Self-Tracking (2020)

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