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Conquering Your Finances with Emacs and Ledger

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Tools and practiceVim, Emacs and editorsThe shell and command line

Austin demonstrates how to manage personal finances using the command-line accounting tool Ledger and Emacs ledger-mode.

Ledger is a command line accounting tool for Linux, Mac, and Windows. Transactions are stored in a simple text format, so your data is available wherever you can use a text editor. Using Emacs in ledger-mode, which offers autocompletion for account names and other useful functions, Austin shows how he manages the last half-decade of his personal financial data! Learn more from the developers at thoughtbot ⌨️ Head over to tbot.io/dev-blog to read more great articles on our blog.

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