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> it seems to me it’s a lot of work to keep everything up to date Unless you do dozens of transactions every day, it's not much of a hassle to keep track of th
by ilammy 5y ago
> it seems to me it’s a lot of work to keep everything up to date
Unless you do dozens of transactions every day, it's not much of a hassle to keep track of them manually. If you're like a day trader or a small business owner then yeah, you'll probably need some helper tools.
- wsc981 5y ago> Unless you do dozens of transactions every day, it's not much of a hassle to keep track of them manually. I don't have too many transactions indeed. I am actually contemplating to switching from my Numbers sheet to the Ledger command line tool. I do like that this tool is multiplatform and based on simple text files. And it shouldn't be too hard to write a few scripts to convert data from my banks and brokers into the format used by Ledger. I guess I'd need a day to setup everything, so perhaps it'd be a decent weekend project. Eventually I would like to leave the macOS platform and not relying on Numbers would make the switch just a little bit easier.
- kqr 5y agoI actually switched from the plain-text hledger to a spreadsheet. I still do double-entry in the spreadsheet, but the latter was easier to use on the phone (0--3 transactions per day) and easier to share with other family members.