Mal<p><a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/Beancount" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Beancount</span></a> </p><p>This is the best double-entry personal accounting system, leaving any others standing in dust. The core of the system is a text database, which I manage in VSCode with the related extension, and of course I store the file in Github private repo.</p><p>From Beancount is derived excellent graphical reports system called <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/Fava" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fava</span></a> - you don't have to use it, but it's also very cool.</p><p>For me, the spin-off value from Beancount is that, being a text database, it also functions as my diary. I can and do annotate it. My journal begins in 2009 and is uninterrupted. Those were important years of my family life, all recorded in perhaps obsessive detail.</p><p><a href="https://beancount.io/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">beancount.io/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br><a href="https://github.com/beancount/beancount" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">github.com/beancount/beancount</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br><a href="https://beancount.github.io/fava/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">beancount.github.io/fava/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>