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+title: "Plaintext Accounting, beancount, and fava"
+date: 2021-01-15T15:54:51+01:00
+draft: false # I don't care for draft mode, git has branches for that
+description: "Or the story of my fall into systematically logging my expenses"
+tags:
+  - accounting
+  - cli
+categories:
+  - software
+  - slice of life
+series:
+favorite: false
+---
+
+[Plain text accounting](https://plaintextaccounting.org/) is a way of tracking
+your finances using simple text files and command line software.
+
+Being about to work on my end-of-studies internship, and therefore enter the
+*adult*, *professional* world, I decided that I needed a better way to track my
+income, expenses, and net worth.
+
+<!--more-->
+
+## My accounting journey
+
+* gifts
+* credit card during high-school/CPGE
+* joining the YAKA-ACU team
+
+## Why do I want an actual accounting solution?
+
+* some people use their head
+  * I used to do that for a long time
+  * I want more fine-grained control and analysis of my habits
+  * I'm somewhat of a airhead, suffer from one-click-purchase-syndrome
+* some people use a spreadsheet
+  * bothersome
+  * easy to mess up
+  * hard to version
+    * I like `git`
+* I want
+  * foolproof
+  * exhaustive
+  * powerful analysis, and trivia
+    * how much have I spent at my neighbourhood bakery in the last semester ?
+  * pretty interface
+  * FLOSS and forward compatible
+
+## Beancount
+
+### What is it?
+
+* python
+* inspired by ledger, hledger
+* simple
+* *double entry accounting*
+
+### Why did I choose it ?
+
+* plain text accounting
+* wonderful documentation
+  * first real introduction to double-entry accounting
+* author's comparison with ledger and hledger
+* I *grok* python
+
+### So how do I use it?
+
+* backlog of transactions
+* fava
+* simple makefile and git hooks
+* mobile phone app
+
+## What's next?
+
+* not accurately tracking my taxes from my pay check
+* not tracking my livret A, PEE, future PEL and AV