On Wed, 3 Apr 2024 at 20:36, Art Chimes <artsonl...@gmail.com> wrote: [...]
> > 2. Does anyone who has used Ledger, with or without Gnucash files, > have anything to say about Ledger and whether they think it's worth > looking into. > I've used piecash to convert gnucash files to ledger format (see https://piecash.readthedocs.io/en/master/doc/doc.html?highlight=ledger#the-piecash-command-line-interface ). There are pros and cons compared to gnucash, so it depends on what's important to you. I've found that account matching when importing transactions is better in gnucash than ledger-cli, the gnucash gui is probably better for most users and the built-in reports in gnucash help you to quickly get what most users need, maybe with a bit of tweaking to set up local preferences/options. Gnucash has a number of features, such as bills and invoices, built-in that you need to set-up manually in ledger-cli (i.e. construct a way of doing it). Where I've found ledger-cli to be useful is for automating parts of processes that involve multiple people - in one context I have a reasonably complex setting that involves lots of people submitting expenses claims, and I have created a google form with some apps script that automatically generates an email to provide a receipt for the person and ledger-cli transactions that I can just copy and paste quickly - this has saved me a lot of time. I use emacs ledger-mode to interact with my ledger files, so editing is fast and easy because emacs is good at that. I have a load of reports set up in an org-mode file which means I can have lots of variations saved that are quick to navigate to and can export them to nicely formatted HTML files. And because it's all based on text files, I can use git (locally) for version control. I can also log into my computer from my phone and run ledger in a terminal to do things remotely (mostly querying, editing is a bit fiddly). I like them both, for different reasons and purposes. David -- David Whiting _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
