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hledger docs
hledger-specific docs are collected here. For more docs relevant to all ledger-likes, see plaintextaccounting.org.
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Introduction
What is hledger?
An enhanced, well-documented rewrite of the original plain text accounting tool.
hledger intro
Frequently Asked Questions
Download
Release notes\
What is Plain Text Accounting?
Using plain text data formats and modular free software tools for robust, efficient accounting.
plaintextaccounting.org\
What is Accounting?
Tracking your use of valuable commodities, such as money or time, for increased awareness and effectiveness.
Selected accounting links\
Guide
A growing collection of tutorials, how-tos and discussion of general topics. (Please help complete this!)
Getting started
hledger Step by Step tutorial\
Journal management
Start a journal
Track changes with version control\
Account names
PTA: choosing accounts
Rewrite account names
Use another account separator character\
Journal entries
Basic journal entries
Project accounting\
Data entry/import
Investing
More..
Reference
Reference manuals, covering every part of hledger's functionality.
Core tools
hledger(1) is the command-line UI
hledger-ui(1) is a curses-style UI
hledger-web(1) is a web UI
hledger-api(1) is a HTTP-JSON API
File formats
hledger_journal(5) is hledger's native data format, representing an accounting journal
hledger_csv(5) allows CSV import/export
hledger_timeclock(5) is for clock-in/clock-out time logging
hledger_timedot(5) is for human-friendly time logging
Addon tools
(cf download -> D)
hledger-diff shows differences in an account's transactions between one journal file and another.
hledger-iadd is a curses-style replacement for hledger's add command.
hledger-interest generates interest transactions for an account according to various schemes.
hledger-irr calculates the internal rate of return of an investment account.
Some experimental tools:
hledger-budget.hs adds Ledger-style periodic transactions and budget reports.
hledger-check.hs checks more powerful account balance assertions.
Also:
ledger-autosync, can download, deduplicate and/or convert OFX data (includes hledger support, rename/symlink it to hledger-autosync to see it in commands list)
PTA: related tools lists all known plain text accounting helper tools