Plain text accounting is a way of doing bookkeeping and accounting with plain text files and scriptable, command-line-friendly software, such as Ledger, hledger, or Beancount. Benefits include version control, scriptability, data portability and privacy. See https://plaintextaccounting.org and https://wiki.plaintextaccounting.org for more details.
If you have a PTA-ish project on Github, consider adding the plaintext-accounting
(*) topic in your repo settings.
Some related topics:
ledger-cli
,
hledger
,
beancount
.