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Part of Plain Text Accounting family: https://plaintextaccounting.org/ https://plaintextaccounting.org/ I really prefer having complete control of my financial

by howeyc 5y ago

Part of Plain Text Accounting family: https://plaintextaccounting.org/ https://plaintextaccounting.org/ I really prefer having complete control of my financial data this way, and reports can be as custom as you'd like. Better than something like Mint in my opinion.

nightski 5y ago
I hate mint but use a different budgeting system. I'm not sure you can compare an accounting system with a budgeting system - they serve different purposes. I'd love to build a full budgeting system on top of one of these text accounting systems some day.
- howeyc 5y ago
  Just create a "Budget" account and a report that does "Budget" vs "Expenses"
  - BeetleB 5y ago
    Beancounts budgeting system is fairly poor. It can't handle envelope budgeting, which is the only useful budgeting system I've found so far.
    - barrucadu 5y ago
      For envelope budgeting, I just make subaccounts of my bank accounts for specific purposes.
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    - navaati 5y ago
      It's not great, but what I do is create a fake expense far into the future...