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I started using ledger-cli this year. I can't imagine anything better.

Someone should just write a ledger-cli graphical view with the text file as still the primary way to input new data.



Ledger seems too tedious to me for some reason. Tabbing through a form view like GnuCash was a lot easier/faster than ledger's CLI. Editing the text files isn't great either, the text formatting is white space heavy and meant to be readable (but not very writable). Would've been nice to have it as YAML or Jsonnet maybe.


ledger-cli is rock solid but it lacks a decent TUI.

Really all I want is an 80s TUI accounting app that "just works" as ledger does but with a menu driven interface with keyboard shortcut support.

Modern stuff like multi-user capabilities, plugins, templates, API etc. wouldn't hurt.




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