Comment by candiddevmike
Comment by candiddevmike 5 days ago
I'd embrace plain text accounting more if it had a better schema. Ledger's is absolutely atrocious, and it drives my OCD nuts trying to use vim to "write" accounting entries.
I think my ideal PTA would be some kind of jsonnet-based system where I can create/call functions to generate journal entries.
You never have to look at it. I have an Excel - one file a year - with a schema that makes sense to me, then a Python script to convert that to {year}.beancount. The script is triggered by fswatch.
So I get a browser frontend with fava and data input in Excel.
It’s non-trivial, but then so is any form of accounting.