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+<h1 style="text-align:center; margin-bottom:5%;">Plain Text Accounting</h1>
+
+<div class="three columns">
+
+### concepts
+
+accounting and double-entry bookkeeping
+
+Ledger and the Ledger-likes
+
+</div>
+<div class="five columns">
+
+### characteristics
+
+plain text data format
+
+signed numbers instead of debit and credit
+<!--
+Business transactions are events that have a monetary impact on the
+financial statements of an organization. When accounting for these
+transactions, we record numbers in two accounts, where the debit
+column is on the left and the credit column is on the right.
+
+A debit is an accounting entry that either increases an asset or
+expense account, or decreases a liability or equity account. It is
+positioned to the left in an accounting entry.
+
+A credit is an accounting entry that either increases a liability or
+equity account, or decreases an asset or expense account.
+
+--[Debits and Credits](http://www.accountingtools.com/debits-and-credits)
+http://www.accountingcoach.com/debits-and-credits/explanation
+-->
+
+free-form account hierarchy
+
+functional operation
+
+command-line scriptable
+
+</div>
+<div class="three columns">
+
+### why ?
+
+why we exist
+
+who are we for
+
+alternatives
+
+</div>
+
+</div>
+<div class="row">
+
+<div class="seven columns">
+
+### Ledger-likes
+
+<!-- http://pandoc.org/README.html#tables -->
+| | |
+|---------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------|-|
+| [Ledger](http://ledger-cli.org)                   | the original. C++ <!-- Very fast, advanced features. --> | [openhub](https://www.openhub.net/p/ledger) |
+| [hledger](http://hledger.org)                     | Haskell <!-- Easy to use, multi-column reports, multiple UIs. --> | [openhub](https://www.openhub.net/p/hledger) |
+| [Beancount](http://furius.ca/beancount)           | Python <!-- Accounting correctness aids, extensible. --> | [openhub](https://www.openhub.net/p/beancount) |
+| [Abandon](https://github.com/hrj/abandon)         | Scala | [openhub](https://www.openhub.net/p/abandon) |
+| [Ledger in Go](https://github.com/howeyc/ledger)  | Go | |
+
+<!-- | Inactive:                                         | | | -->
+<!-- | [cl-ledger](https://github.com/ledger/cl-ledger)  | Common Lisp | | -->
+<!-- | [ledger.pl](https://github.com/dimonf/ledger.pl)  | Perl | | -->
+<!-- | [penny](https://github.com/massysett/penny)       | Haskell | | -->
+<!-- | [UMM](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/UMM)     | Haskell | | -->
+
+Inactive:
+
+- [cl-ledger](https://github.com/ledger/cl-ledger)&nbsp;Common Lisp
+- [ledger.pl](https://github.com/dimonf/ledger.pl)&nbsp;Perl
+- [penny](https://github.com/massysett/penny)&nbsp;Haskell
+- [UMM](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/UMM)&nbsp;Haskell
+
+<!-- [compare](https://www.openhub.net/p/_compare?project_0=Ledger&project_1=hledger&project_2=beancount) -->
+
+### related tools
+
+- [fava](https://github.com/aumayr/beancount-web) web UI for browsing beancount data
+- [hledger-api](https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/tree/master/hledger-api) JSON API for *ledger data, can also serve static files
+- [hledger-diff](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/hledger-diff) report differing transactions between two journals
+- [hledger-iadd](https://github.com/hpdeifel/hledger-iadd) curses UI for data entry
+- [hledger-interest](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/hledger-interest) generate *ledger interest transactions
+- [hledger-irr](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/hledger-irr) calculate an account's internal rate of return over time
+- [hledger-ui](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/hledger-ui) curses UI for browsing
+- [hledger-web](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/hledger-web) web UI for browsing and data entry
+- [icsvledger](https://launchpad.net/csv2ledger) CSV to journal converter
+- [ledger-autosync](https://gitlab.com/egh/ledger-autosync) convert OFX to journal, deduplication, bank download
+- [ledger-dashboard](https://github.com/Ikke/ledger-dashboard) web UI for browsing
+- [ledger-web](https://github.com/slashdotdash/node-ledger-web) web UI for browsing
+- [ledgerhelpers](https://github.com/Rudd-O/ledgerhelpers) GUI tools and python library front end for Ledger
+- [reckon](https://github.com/cantino/reckon) smart interactive/non-interactive CSV to journal converter
+- sandstorm.io web app hosting, eg for [hledger-web](https://apps.sandstorm.io/app/8x12h6p0x0nrzk73hfq6zh2jxtgyzzcty7qsatkg7jfg2mzw5n90)
+- [taskwarrior](http://taskwarrior.org) todo list manager, some *ledger integration for time reporting
+- [tim](https://github.com/MatthiasKauer/tim) time tracking tool using hledger for reports
+    
+</div>
+<div class="five columns u-pull-right">
+
+### docs
+
+- [Ledger manuals](http://ledger-cli.org/docs.html)
+- [Ledger wiki](https://github.com/ledger/ledger/wiki)
+- [Getting Started With Ledger book](https://github.com/rolfschr/GSWL-book)
+- [hledger's more docs](http://hledger.org)
+- [Beancount docs](http://furius.ca/beancount/doc/index)
+<!-- - [Abandon wiki](https://github.com/hrj/abandon/wiki) -->
+
+### discussion
+
+### common tasks
+
+#### data entry
+
+#### reconciling
+
+#### reporting
+
+#### forecasting
+
+#### budgetting
+
+#### shared expenses
+
+#### 
+
+#### 
+
+</div>
+
+</div>
+<div class="row" style="text-align:center;">
+
+<hr>
+Send updates via the [github repo](https://github.com/simonmichael/plaintextaccounting) or [notes page](https://oasis.sandstorm.io/shared/UAYLwagGI0a2pIMg9Hhv74K04nbuxanXiS5ZtBV6NF-)
+
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