Plain Text Accounting is Pretty Cool

Sat, 15 Aug 2026 06:25:00 -0600

I like to keep track of my finances pretty religiously. I don’t really budget, I am just very obsessive about tracking every expense, and ensuring that my overall savings rate is high¹. I started by using Mint (may it rest in peace) and when it got killed, I switched to Rocket Money. Eventually I got annoyed with that due to it not supporting connections to some of my accounts and I ended up keeping track of my finances manually in markdown files in a git repo for a few years.² Last year, I started using Origin, which was pretty good. However, recently I started looking for a new solution due to a few reasons:

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Plain Text Accounting is Pretty Cool