User Cookbook
Here you'll find task-oriented advice and additional user notes that didn't fit in the manual. Unlike the manual, these docs vary in age and quality.
General usage
Data entry
Preserving your data
- Track changes with version control
- Keep backups - 3-2-1 rule
Checking for errors
Reporting techniques
Making charts
Customising
- Change account name separator
- Command line completion
- Editor configuration
- Save frequently used options
- Scripting hledger
Setups and workflows
Other user interfaces
Scripts and add-ons
Other software
- Exporting from hledger
- hledger and Beancount
- hledger and dsq / DataStation
- hledger and GnuCash
- hledger and Ledger
- hledger and Obsidian
- hledger and Paisa
- hledger and Postgres
- hledger and Quicken/Quickbooks
- hledger and SQLite
- hledger and Ultorg
- hledger and YNAB
Accounting tasks
Learning accounting and bookkeeping
Borrowing and lending
Budgeting
Eco accounting
Forecasting
Inventory tracking
Investing and trading
- Track investments (2017)
- Track investments (2020)
- Calculate unrealized gain
- Calculate return on investment
- hledger-lots
Invoicing
Multiple currencies
Non-profit accounting
Taxes
Time tracking
Trip expenses
Shared expenses
See also
https://plaintextaccounting.org and https://wiki.plaintextaccounting.org collect similar but more generic advice for any and all PTA tools.