What is the best way to use ledger on my android phone? I need to be able to account for every transaction I make immediately after they happen. Sitting down and writing all this stuff into a file at the end of the day is just too boring.
Anyone have experience with the apps mentioned in the site?
PS a little daily-ish data-entry-and-reconciling ritual, with a pleasant tool setup, can be quite satisfying! I actually look forward to it. (That right there is part of my PTA success story. I used to suffer a lot of stress around all things finance.)
I use Cone and Termux on my android device. My ledger journal is synced to a private git repo. When I'm away from my laptop, I just enter the transaction in cone, and push it via termux at the end of the day.
It does have some limitations though, as cone is append only, it cannot edit transactions. For this, I've had to fire up vim a few times in Termux.
I have also created a few scripts using ledger, gnuplot and termux-open to generate graphical reports, and have exposed these via termux widgets. This gives me a one-click access to real time reports on my phone.
I use Spendee to track expenses. They are using firebase so its quite easy to get your data with a script. I then use the expenses csv file along with other journal files. Expenses are most boring to enter and Spendee solves that nicely.
Anyone have experience with the apps mentioned in the site?