hledger by example

A small but growing book introducing hledger, one step at a time. (For other hledger docs, see Docs or the sidebar.)

Reading the book in order is helpful, but not essential. You can use the the left and right arrow keys, or the arrow buttons below, to step through the pages. Eg press the right arrow key now to see the next.

• Get hledger installed
• Check your setup
• Start a journal
• Set starting balances
• Add transactions
• Use the web UI
• Use the terminal UI
• Journal entries
• Account names
• More transactions
• Overview of commands
• Show whole transactions
• Show detailed changes
• Accounting basics
• Show assets and liabilities
• Show revenues and expenses
• Flexible account summing
• Read CSV files
• Import new transactions
• Read timeclock files
• Read timedot files