I just thought that Git could make a lot of sense to manage personal finance. A little bit in the spirit of Ledger CLI https://www.ledger-cli.org/
I searched & it seems nobody have tried.
What do you thing & what would be the best approach?
There's actually wealth of resources on this topic today, see <a href="https://plaintextaccounting.org/" rel="nofollow">https://plaintextaccounting.org/</a> for a starting point.<p>> it seems nobody have tried<p>Probably because it's too obvious of an idea? And you wouldn't just find people's repos on github with their ledger databases for another obvious reason.
I always had a question for people who do such things.
Is it really worth the time to configure such things and get into a habit of it?<p>It's like a ton of time to get into such framework, much easier to install some app on your phone.
What's the point? (Sincere question)
Git + Ledger (or other plaintext accounting tools) actually works pretty well. I did that for several years, though the habit/routine broke for me last year. It let me keep the files in sync between my phone and my computer(s).<p>I'm not sure it's worth a writeup as anything special, git is (for programmers especially) a conventional way of keeping things synchronized between devices. I also used Dropbox for a time, but I specifically wanted versioning to help keep track of edits and reorgs of my files so I switched to git.