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Re:Show HN: HLedger Cal – your money habits over time on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @09:36AM (#50453968)
I've been keeping books in HLedger for some 3 years now. My journals have multiple currencies in them. While `hledger-ui` allows me browse accounts, I needed something which would help me compare my financial status across time periods. Shifting the focus from accounts to time, gave birth to hledger-cal

hledger-cal puts the period on a calendar — one cell per day, month or quarter — valued in your base currency at period end.

I constrained hledger-cal to work with HLedger's native libraries. So as long as your journal works with HLedger, you now have a free calendar view. It's an add-on, do once you have `hledger-cal` in your path, you can call it using `hledger cal` with the query options you know and love from hledger.

It's on Homebrew and Scoop, for Linux, Mac and Windows. You can also just download the binary for your computer from Github Releases

Re:Any social platforms not focused on algorithms? on Saturday February 22, 2025 @02:59PM (#43142587)
I thought ranking was just the number of upvotes on a [thing] — post or comment
Re:Ask HN: Alternative to VS Code? on Saturday February 22, 2025 @02:58PM (#43142574)
Recommendations, use a flavour / distro of NeoVim.

I use Vim because I enjoy fitting Vim to how I think. But since the love story of Vim-based setups are long gone for you, I'd recommend picking up one of these new distros for Neovim — there are not as many i know about in pure Vim.

I've heard good things about Lazy.nvim and Astro.nvim.

Re:Johnny.Decimal – A system to organise your life on Saturday February 22, 2025 @02:44PM (#43142416)
Curious, how relevant is something like this in today's world?

I was fascinated by this when I first saw it years ago. But in today's world, where fuzzy-finding, and A.I. working off embedded vector databases is a thing, how relevant is this system — if the content being organized is electronic stuff on a computer. I get that this may work as a physical organization system.