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  • Tim Ch-AI-se (now with bonus spooky) 👻gumnos@bsd.cafe
    Aug 15, 2026, 6:50 PM

    feeling a little sheepish that I'm just now closing the financial books on 2024 & 2025.

    The data was all in my ledger(1) #plaintextaccounting files. But when I'm dealing with household finances at the rollover of a new year, I tend to drag my feet at the of the year because uncleared transactions throw a wrench in things. And just never got back to it. So apparently I dragged my feet for 2.5yr 😆

    I log about 1000 transactions (~150KB of data) annually, so ledger was running a little slow. With those ~2000 transactions/300KB of data archived off, it's back to being quite snappy.

    Tangentially, it's all stored in git and synced to various local & remote hosts, so I can maintain finances from any of those machines and have a nigh-instant snapshot of household finances.

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  • Tim Ch-AI-se (now with bonus spooky) 👻gumnos@bsd.cafe
    Aug 15, 2026, 7:07 PM

    @synlogic4242

    My finances are in ledger(1) plain-text format.

    My todos used to be in todo.txt plain-text format.

    My calendar (and now my todos) are in remind(1) plain-text format.

    My notes-dumping is all plain-text.

    My personal address-book is in recutils plain-text format.

    All synced around in git ☺

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  • synlogic4242synlogic4242@vivaldi.net
    Aug 15, 2026, 11:02 PM

    @gumnos my people! yeah you can slice and dice to taste. and waaaaay more privacy and control than using commercial/cloud software or GUI hell

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  • Bryan :tng_badge:bryan@dusty.ninja
    Aug 15, 2026, 7:23 PM

    @gumnos how do you meet deadlines for quarterly tax payments or yearly filings? 🤔 Just overpay so late filings are just delayed refunds?

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