Thanks Russell, Craig, Simon for all these suggestions. I will definitely try out some of these right away.
Actually I have been 'aware' of ledger for quite a while. And I do love the command line. With the demise of the Google finance API, I was looking back at beancounter which I have also used in the past to look at my investments. That doesn't seem to work anymore, and my travels took me to ledger. I just took a second look and decided, this is for me. One problem with Gnucash/Gnome is that it is tough to access remotely. I've tried X forwarding. nxserver, vnc, with Gnush on fluxbox instead of Gnome, on Amazon or a home machine and performance is just not acceptable. Windows works much better for remote stuff. Go figure..... With ledger/hledger, I can store my data on dropbox, and do my 'accounting' in a terminal via ssh. Awesome! I've always been a vi user, but l will also take a look at emacs now. Looks like this may speed things up further. I will have a couple of questions going forward, (in fact in a separate post right away) but well on my way now! Boyd -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ledger" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
