Manage your accounts on the command line
![dollar and command line](../images/ledger/dollar.png)
As the years go by, the children grow up and the time comes for higher education (and associated costs). This is an opportunity to take back control of my personal finances a little more seriously.
I tried gnucash that I have already used a few years ago, but I met some difficulties:
I had a lot of stability problems (segfault),
synchronization with OFX files retrieved from the bank required far too many manual actions.
After some research on the web, I decided to try ledger-cli and I think I have now adopted it. My configuration now allows: