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We love using ledger-cli to manage our personal finances, but writing every transaction in your life can be painfully cumbersome. Ledgerdown lets you write your days transactions in a condensed format, and outputs it in a ledger.
Use a Dropbox-powered text editor in your phone to write your ledgerdown files.
They'll look like this:
Jan 12:
35: Cash to Snacks: Famous waffles
4000: Savings to Cash: Withdraw
4000 = Cash balance
+ ATM withdrawal
11: Expenses:Fees
2000: Cash
Savings
Then run Ledgerdown when you get home, to get this output:
2014/01/12 * Famous waffles
Snacks $35
Cash
; Descriptions are optional
2014/01/12 * Cash
Cash $4000
Savings
; Balance assertions
2014/01/12 * Cash balance
[Cash] = $4000
; Custom postings are supported
2014/01/12 * ATM Withdrawal
Expenses:Fees $11
Cash $2000
Savings
$ npm install -g ledgerdown
Ledgerdown is a CLI tool that takes an input and spits out ledger-cli-formatted output.
$ ledgerdown input.txt > output.ledger
Options:
# Default currency format
$ ledgerdown -c "AUD %s" ... > ...
See Syntax reference.
ledgerdown © 2014+, Rico Sta. Cruz. Released under the MIT License.
Authored and maintained by Rico Sta. Cruz with help from contributors (list).
ricostacruz.com · GitHub @rstacruz · Twitter @rstacruz
FAQs
Condensed ledger format.
We found that ledgerdown demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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