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@mere@infosec.exchange well it sounds like we should keep in touch! 😄 I took a look at the format last night, the best reference I could find was actually hledger's docs: https://hledger.org/1.52/hledger.html#journal-cheatsheet It seems pretty reasonable, and in a lot of ways cleaner than what I've got. It also has a _lot_ of features, far more than I currently support. (In particular I don't support multiple currencies or cost-basis tracking.) But a subset of it might be useful! It sounds like the Ledger family of tools is based on a model of taking a source file, like a CSV, and importing it by modifying a journal file (in Ledger's format), so that you can assign transactions to accounts and add tags and stuff. That's reasonable! But I'm doing something a little bit different: I'm trying to check in the exact files from banks or credit cards or whatever, unmodified, and use them as the source material without duplicating their contents anywhere. So I have sidecar files to add metadata, but the CSV/XLS/PDF/QDF file is always the source of truth. Is this a good idea? I don't know! It's been working for me so far, but wanting to do this is why I haven't seriously attempted using any of the PTA-family of tools. No shade, they seem great.