HACKER Q&A
📣 xupybd

How to do multi user plain text accounting?


I've been a big fan of plain text accounting. However, I'm the only one in the family that is willing to learn such tools.

I've used paid solutions, hated some and loved others. Lunch money was amazing. But my workflow with Hledger still brings back fond memories. With our next child due in 5 weeks I'm setting up our new budget and want to return to plain text accounting.

There are some missing features with Hledger. My wife would like to see how much remains in each category. Preferably via mobile phone.

Using plain text tools means I'm restricting data entry to me. It would be ideal if my wife could have a user friendly interface, but not essential.

I'm hoping some of you run similar setups and might have some suggestions.


  👤 simonmic Accepted Answer ✓
We run a mix of hledger for me, hledger-web for wife, and a shared google sheet. Lots of folks interested in this in the PTA world, how about starting a discussion in the plaintextaccounting chat or reddit ?