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title: hledger docs
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# Docs

**Official hledger docs:**

[Installation Guide](INSTALL.html) and
[Release Notes](NEWS.html)

[User Manual](MANUAL.html) (past releases:
[0.19.x User Manual](0.19/MANUAL.html),
[0.18.x User Manual](0.18/MANUAL.html))

[Contributor Guide](DEVELOPMENT.html) *support, community and developer resources*

[Compatibility with ledger](LEDGER.html)

[FAQ](FAQ.html) *in progress*

**Tutorials:**

[How to read CSV files](CSV.html)

[How to use account aliases](ALIASES.html)

**More docs:**

[hledger.org/wiki](http://hledger.org/wiki)

**Related:**

[Accounting For Dragons](http://podcastle.org/2009/10/09/pc-miniature-38-accounting-for-dragons) *motivating*

[ledger's site](http://ledger-cli.org) and [manual](http://ledger-cli.org/3.0/doc/ledger3.html) *informative*

[beancount](http://furius.ca/beancount/),
[penny](https://github.com/massysett/penny),
[UMM](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/UMM)
*more ledger-likes*