Docs

An overview of hledger user docs. (You don't need to read all of these; pick the ones that fit your needs.)

Note, starting out with hledger and plain text accounting, setting up a new accounting system, and bringing order to your financial life, can be a lot. Learning hledger has some tips.

Also, your fellow users can help. To ask questions or search past discussions, see:

Quick intros

Short introductions, which assume a bit of command line know-how. These overlap somewhat.

Slow intros

Slower-paced, step-by-step tutorials.

Thorough reference docs

The manuals are the authoritative hledger docs. You can also view them on your local machine with hledger help, hledger-ui --man, hledger-web --info etc.

Cookbook: Using hledger

Tips and how-tos that didn't fit in the manual. These vary in age and quality.

Setups and workflows

Data entry

Examples

  • examples/ - examples and snippets, old and new

Preserving your data

Checking for errors

Reporting

Making charts

Customising

Other user interfaces

Scripts and add-ons

Other software

Cookbook: Accounting tasks

Learning accounting and bookkeeping

Borrowing and lending

Budgeting

Eco accounting

Forecasting

Inventory tracking

Investing and trading

Invoicing

Multiple currencies

Non-profit accounting

Taxes

Time tracking

Trip expenses

Shared expenses

See also

https://plaintextaccounting.org collects similar but more generic advice for all PTA tools.