Comment by BeetleB
It sounds like what you are doing is plain text accounting!
> Later we loaded it into a script which would...
I too do not manually enter things in the ledger file (well, rarely). I actually enter it into KMyMoney, and have a script to convert to a ledger file.
Overall, your comment is coming across as a fairly weird complaint. It's a tool, and given that its in text, you're free to build whatever workflow you wish around it - including having people take notes on their iPhone and using a script to convert to the ledger format.
It’s not a complaint, just an observation that anything non-natural language simply didn’t work for almost 100% of my “patients”, including myself. This format isn’t even a format. It’s how they write notes for themselves with a little agreement on regularity to simplify the parser.
Btw, we tried everything: appstore apps, web forms, our own app. Everything sucks irl except just text. I still use this entry despite not having a database anymore for a script to load my data into.