$archiver NSKeyedArchiver $objects $null $class CF$UID 37 NS.objects CF$UID 2 $class CF$UID 33 NS.keys CF$UID 3 CF$UID 4 CF$UID 5 NS.objects CF$UID 6 CF$UID 7 CF$UID 35 Title Text Date Untitled Snapshot $class CF$UID 34 NSAttributes CF$UID 10 NSDelegate CF$UID 0 NSString CF$UID 8 $class CF$UID 9 NS.string The most important part of accounting is keeping a good ledger. If you have a good ledger, tools can be written to work whatever mathematically tricks you need to better understand your spending patterns. Without a good ledger, no tool, however smart, can help you. The Ledger program aims at making ledger transaction as simple as possible. Since it is a command-line tool, it does not provide a user interface for keeping a ledger. If you like, you may use GnuCash to maintain your ledger, in which case the Ledger program will read GnuCash's data files directly. In that case, read the GnuCash manual now, and skip to the next chapter. If you are not using GnuCash, but a text editor to maintain your ledger, read on. Ledger has been designed to make data transaction as simple as possible, by keeping the ledger format easy, and also by automagically determining as much information as possible based on the nature of your transactions. For example, you do not need to tell Ledger about the accounts you use. Any time Ledger sees a posting involving an account it knows nothing about, it will create it. If you use a commodity that is new to Ledger, it will create that commodity, and determine its display characteristics (placement of the symbol before or after the amount, display precision, etc) based on how you used the commodity in the posting. Here is the Pacific Bell example from above, given as a Ledger posting: @smallexample 9/29 (100) Pacific Bell Expenses:Utilities:Phone $23.00 Assets:Checking $-23.00 @end smallexample As you can see, it is very similar to what would be written on paper, minus the computed balance totals, and adding in account names that work better with Ledger's scheme of things. In fact, since Ledger is smart about many things, you don't need to specify the balanced amount, if it is the same as the first line: @smallexample 9/29 (100) Pacific Bell Expenses:Utilities:Phone $23.00 Assets:Checking @end smallexample For this transaction, Ledger will figure out that $-23.00 must come from @samp{Assets:Checking} in order to balance the transaction. $classes NSMutableString NSString NSObject $classname NSMutableString $class CF$UID 33 NS.keys CF$UID 11 CF$UID 12 NS.objects CF$UID 13 CF$UID 30 NSParagraphStyle NSFont $class CF$UID 29 NSAlignment 4 NSLineHeightMultiple 1.1000000238418579 NSTabStops CF$UID 14 $class CF$UID 28 NS.objects CF$UID 15 CF$UID 17 CF$UID 18 CF$UID 19 CF$UID 20 CF$UID 21 CF$UID 22 CF$UID 23 CF$UID 24 CF$UID 25 CF$UID 26 CF$UID 27 $class CF$UID 16 NSLocation 28 $classes NSTextTab NSObject $classname NSTextTab $class CF$UID 16 NSLocation 56 $class CF$UID 16 NSLocation 84 $class CF$UID 16 NSLocation 112 $class CF$UID 16 NSLocation 140 $class CF$UID 16 NSLocation 168 $class CF$UID 16 NSLocation 196 $class CF$UID 16 NSLocation 224 $class CF$UID 16 NSLocation 252 $class CF$UID 16 NSLocation 280 $class CF$UID 16 NSLocation 308 $class CF$UID 16 NSLocation 336 $classes NSArray NSObject $classname NSArray $classes NSParagraphStyle NSObject $classname NSParagraphStyle $class CF$UID 32 NSName CF$UID 31 NSSize 14 NSfFlags 16 Courier $classes NSFont NSObject $classname NSFont $classes NSDictionary NSObject $classname NSDictionary $classes KBWordCountingTextStorage NSTextStorage NSMutableAttributedString NSAttributedString NSObject $classname KBWordCountingTextStorage $class CF$UID 36 NS.time 267380388.67717099 $classes NSDate NSObject $classname NSDate $classes NSMutableArray NSArray NSObject $classname NSMutableArray $top Snapshots CF$UID 1 $version 100000