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Does anyone know if there's a good app I can use for plaintext accounting on my phone? I'd love to be able to use syncthing to sync the ledger on my PC and phon

Does anyone know if there's a good app I can use for plaintext accounting on my phone? I'd love to be able to use syncthing to sync the ledger on my PC and phone. It'd really help me stop collecting receipts so I can bulk put them in when I get home.

smichael 5y ago
https://hledger.org/mobile-apps.html https://hledger.org/mobile-apps.html gives some ideas.
bingohbangoh 5y ago
FWIW Emacs has a ledger mode that is fantastic. I suspect other editors do as well.
howeyc 5y ago
Any text editor will do. Or maybe this? https://cone.tangential.info/ https://cone.tangential.info/
- KennyBlanken 5y ago
  I am not editing a structured text file on my phone while out and about. Especially due to the error-prone-ness and slowness of using mobile screen keyboards, you need guided/assisted data entry; a number pad only when you need to enter numbers or dates. A "use today's date if blank" field, selectors for accounts and tags, etc.
- raspyberr 5y ago
  Yeah any text editor would be fine which is what's great about PTA but editing text on a phone isn't great. That app looks like it might be what I'm looking for so I'll have a look at that thanks
Karrot_Kream 5y ago
Personally, I have a Matrix bot written which takes a simple format like "$5 Honey Groceries" and batches them up into inputs for my ledger. That way I can tap in a new transaction on the go but still have it all recorded at home
rthomas6 5y ago
I do this. I use Cone on Android. It works great but only as an entry method. You can't edit old entries, and it doesn't run anything over the files. It just adds entries and that's it. I couple it with Syncthing, and Fava running on a different computer served over the local network. I would like a phone app to run on the beancount file, but the only apps that purport to do this have <1k downloads and no ratings, so I'm not going to trust them with my financial data

smichael 5y ago

https://hledger.org/mobile-apps.html https://hledger.org/mobile-apps.html gives some ideas.

bingohbangoh 5y ago

FWIW Emacs has a ledger mode that is fantastic. I suspect other editors do as well.

howeyc 5y ago

Any text editor will do. Or maybe this? https://cone.tangential.info/ https://cone.tangential.info/

KennyBlanken 5y ago
I am not editing a structured text file on my phone while out and about. Especially due to the error-prone-ness and slowness of using mobile screen keyboards, you need guided/assisted data entry; a number pad only when you need to enter numbers or dates. A "use today's date if blank" field, selectors for accounts and tags, etc.
raspyberr 5y ago
Yeah any text editor would be fine which is what's great about PTA but editing text on a phone isn't great. That app looks like it might be what I'm looking for so I'll have a look at that thanks

Karrot_Kream 5y ago

Personally, I have a Matrix bot written which takes a simple format like "$5 Honey Groceries" and batches them up into inputs for my ledger. That way I can tap in a new transaction on the go but still have it all recorded at home

rthomas6 5y ago

I do this. I use Cone on Android. It works great but only as an entry method. You can't edit old entries, and it doesn't run anything over the files. It just adds entries and that's it. I couple it with Syncthing, and Fava running on a different computer served over the local network. I would like a phone app to run on the beancount file, but the only apps that purport to do this have <1k downloads and no ratings, so I'm not going to trust them with my financial data