1.  Ledger

Source: ledger.tcl

Ledger is Gui based personal finance application featuring:

• Fast and easy to use, with auto-completing inputs.
• Reconciliation and report dialogs.
• Import/export QIF transactions/accounts.
• Uses double-entry accounting.
• Handles 10's of thousands of transactions with ease.
• Stores data as plain UTF8 text.
• Supports RCS and CVS for backup-on-save.
• Near zero dependancies (implemented in a single .tcl file).

Un-implemented features:

• Scheduled transactions.
• Budgets and investments.
• Multiple currencies.
• Charts, graphs, etc.
• Bank download/sync.

Here are some screenshots:

2.  Running It

Ledger requires Wize. It is run like so:

  wize ledger.tcl

or the builtin version can be run with:

  wize / Gui/Ledger

3.  Data Storage

Since Ledger uses Tree saving and restoring data simply uses the

 sub-commands dump and restore.

4.  Multiple Books

Multiple sets of accounts can be managed using:

  wize / Gui/Ledger -dir ~/work

If -dir is not given it defaults to ~/ledger.

5.  Exploring/Debugging

As with all Wize applications, you can use <Control-Alt-Shift-2> to explore it. Select aclist_1 from the "Vars" menu to examine the accounts data, or xaction_1 to examine transaction data. Or use Introspect to examine the entire program state.

© 2008 Peter MacDonald