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I wrote a little series a few months ago detailing how my own system works and my reasoning for my decisions. My aim was to help people starting out set up a reasonably automated hands off system.

https://www.petekeen.net/automatic-finances

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I just want to say thank you for your posts on ledger and CLI accounting. I've been trying to port my personal book-keeping from Mint recently and your blog posts have been extremely helpful (even if I have chosen beancount over ledger/hledger because I was struggling with the Haskell ecosystem).

You’re welcome! Glad to hear they were helpful.

These are really informative, thanks for writing them. (Could you add dates to your blog posts some time ?)

You’re welcome!

How do you suppose would dates help this series of essays?

I find it useful on blog posts in general. Eg to know whether I've seen it before, whether I've fallen behind your latest content, at what point in time you're writing, whether new comments are likely in the next few days, whether it's worth commenting myself, etc. I end up looking for it carefully top and bottom, in both reader format and original format, and miss it, every time I visit your blog.

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