> Maybe this was primarily done based on the users being comfortable with a GUI driven system? FWIW I started prototyping a plaintext accounting 'app' that com

> Maybe this was primarily done based on the users being comfortable with a GUI driven system? FWIW I started prototyping a plaintext accounting 'app' that combines a popular plaintext accounting system (beancount) with the most used web frontend for it (fava) - it's called beancolage and makes use of eclipse theia (vscode-like experience): https://github.com/seltzered/beancolage https://github.com/seltzered/beancolage My observation is the plaintext accounting ecosystem is wonderful but a bit diffuse to so many specific usecases held by a more technical userbase. My aim for prototyping beancolage was to ask how things could look if there was a more common 'download and try' experience accessible to more people for basic workflows. Also have a talk on the motivations here: https://youtu.be/mxgoFqmSCFc https://youtu.be/mxgoFqmSCFc