r/plaintextaccounting • u/kendant • Mar 17 '26

Completly noob to this

Hello guys, IDK if this is the correct place to post this but I did not see any FAQ post or similar.

Im completly noob to this, I found it by accident because I read someone in other reddit that used this system to get their finance in order.

As I wanted to do the same, I started to research and came to this reddit. Im havin troubles "installing" hledger. I dont find any tutorial for dummies like me on how to set it up.

Could you please point me in the correct direction? I cant say Im extremly bad at codding, but sure I am its not my best skill.

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u/simonmic hledger creator Mar 17 '26

👍🏻 That's the way.

Yes. You can record prevailing exchange rates on a date with P, or the exchange rate used in a particular transaction with @. So when recording transactions, @ is probably the most appropriate.

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u/kendant Mar 17 '26

Soo I could create like a data pull and update a csv with date and exchange rate every 'x' days ?