El 2022-01-09 22:42, Samuel Banya escribió: > Ah, Ledger is way too complicated for what it's worth. I've seen > videos on YouTube about it, and every person who's praised it is > pretty much too smart enough to be able to explain it in simple terms.
It is very easy. I made a video for EmacsConf 2019 https://emacsconf.org/2019/talks/12/ . I wish someone had showed me examples like these when I started with it. My fiancee is a preschool teacher (programming is not her area of expertize). But she quickly learned how to use it. She keeps about 3700 per year with 4500 lines. It takes her about 10 minutes per day. With that investment, she can even tell how much we have spent on apples or on all fruits (as detailed or general as she wants). On these two years, she has saved us about half our budget and has us living much better thanks to the knowledge of what we want to invest on. (We now do not think of how to spend money, but how to invest it. That changes the point view completely.) There are complicated reports as well as very simple ones that can be generated. And you can always customize them to the last bit. There is also a website http://plaintextaccounting.org . There is plenty of information there. You can also use org-babel to include formulas for Ledger reports. Just ask away! :-)