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My problem honestly is the stability/future/import-export-ability of all accounting tools. So far I'm using BeanCount via org-mode using Fava just to have some
by kkfx 3y ago
My problem honestly is the stability/future/import-export-ability of all accounting tools. So far I'm using BeanCount via org-mode using Fava just to have some eye-candy view since two years, it's not exactly comfortable, but it's flexible and effective enough. Switching tools was NOT, I've started with the simple HomeBank than GNUCash then Ledger (hledger, actually) than BeanCount, all switches was veeeeeery long, partially manual and painful enough that instead of having continuous accounting I've decide to close any year and restart via opening balances to been able in the future to switch tool keeping the old one for a while for previous records.
That's the most annoying part for me: accounting, docs (files) management, notes are things that last many years, sometimes an entire human adult/active life, having the ability to evolve from a tool to another, from a workflow to another not loosing nor painfully transitioning from past tools is a VERY big issue.
Because of that I fear any tool with a large codebase/many deps because a simple tool I can keep it myself if the upstream vanish, a complex one I can't.