{"repo":"marstr/baronial","free":true,"listed":false,"github":"https://github.com/marstr/baronial","clone":"git clone https://github.com/marstr/baronial.git","description":"git-inspired command line budgeting application","language":"Go","stars":13,"topics":["budgets","money","transaction-history","spending","budgeting","accounting","finance"],"license":"GPL-3.0","category":"cli-tools","readme_excerpt":"Baronial Manage your personal finances with all of the power of a scriptable command-line tool, using Baronial! Getting Started Skip to Installation Instructions Welcome! There are thousands of personal finance and accounting tools out there, but you've stumbled onto one that focuses on giving absolute control to you, the user. This project was inspired by Git, and seeks to bring the same flexibility and power that programmers enjoy over their source code to the accounting world. Creating a Repository Transaction history is captured in \"repositories\". Each repository holds a budget and a collection of accounts, more on that later. To get started, open a terminal and type the following: You now have your first repository! There will be two empty folders in your repository \"accounts\" and \"budget\". Your First Transactions Initialization While Baronial does hope to be flexible, it was built with the envelope system in mind. The first transaction you create will be setting the initial state of of your accounts. Let's say you had a checking and savings account with U.S. Bank and an Amazon credit card through Chase, with the following balances: Account Type Institution Balance :----------: :---------: :------: Checking U.S. Bank USD 703.56 Savings U.S. Bank USD 2801.22 Credit Card Chase USD 168.91 You could initialize your accounts by running the following: Notice that because the balance on your credit card is a liability , we use the debit command. This is unlike the U.S. Bank acc","default_branch":null,"files":null,"tree":[],"storefront":"/r/marstr","claimed":false,"request_supported":{"post":"https://gitbuyer.com/r/marstr/baronial/request-supported","requests":0},"note":"indexed from public GitHub; nothing is for sale on this page. Clone it from GitHub. Paid listings live at /search."}