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PTPL 098: One Tool For Everything, or Separate, Complementary Solutions?
A plain text accounting case study, and a 3-step recipe for simplifying your processes
Should software like Obsidian, Excel, and hledger be wrestled into doing things that can often be done more easily with other apps, or analog solutions? Consider using my 3-step recipe for choosing tools that support your values and promote peaceful contentment.
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Plain Text Accounting can’t to do everything (well), and that’s okay
Someone on r/plaintextaccounting is seeking a PTA solution to something that to my mind is blindingly simple, in essence at least. Yet the Reddit question remains, with one caveat-laced workaround solution offered that warns, “we don’t really support that yet.”
The issue they’re having is how to track money saved toward a specific goal over a period of time. Look, if you want to enter things like that into an accounting program, and a plain text one at that, I’m cheering you on!
