Ledger Quick Note

Add ledger transactions on the fly!

Feature

Create Transaction from Template

Add your transaction template in tx/ (in Go's template syntax), and create transaction from them in the browser.

Examples:

Take some cash

{{ .Date }} * cash
    expenses:cash    ${{ .Amount }}
    assets:cash

Cash expenses

{{ .Date }} {{ with .Name }}{{ . }}{{ else }}{{ .Account }}{{ end }}
    {{ .Account }}      ${{ .Amount }}
    expenses:cash

Checkout tx/ folder for more examples.

Adjust your transaction

Result page

Ledger Scripts

Run some commonly used ledger commands.

Define your commands in config.go

var SCRIPTS = map[string][]string{
	"balance assets":     {"b", "assets", "-X", "$"},
	"register":           {"r", "--tail", "10"},
	"balance this month": {"b", "-b", "this month"},
}

Rebuild binary everytime you make a change to config.go

Execute them and see the result in the browser.

Install

Requirements:

• go
• ledger (Only required when you use scripts)

Install requirements on Debian / Ubuntu based distro:

sudo apt install golang ledger

Install requirements on Arch based distro:

sudo pacman -S golang ledger

Clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/lancatlin/lazy-finance.git

go build

./lazy-finance

Checkout deployment/ for Nginx & Systemd example configuration.