Comment by nlh

I’m a huge ledger fan (hledger specifically) and have used it to run my entire accounting life for the past 8 years or so.

A few tips:

* Resist the urge to break up your various accounts into too many separate files. I tried that and went back to one file per account per year (aka “venmo-2024.hledger”). Also helps with below…

* GitHub CoPilot is remarkably and shockingly good at working with ledger files. It will do the balance addition/subtraction on following lines almost perfectly. Also, if you need to manually enter a new line, you can often just enter a shortcut one-line comment and it’ll fill the entire entry, aka:

; 10/1/24 -$250 for new business cards