Welcome! 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. This site collects the PTA community’s tools, docs and practices. It is maintained by Simon Michael (hledger project leader, PTA fan) and contributors like you.

Markdeep is a technology for writing plain text documents that will look good in any web browser, whether local or remote. It supports diagrams, calendars, equations, and other features as extensions of Markdown syntax.

Markdeep is a technology for writing plain text documents that will look good in any web browser, whether local or remote. It supports diagrams, calendars, equations, and other features as extensions of Markdown syntax.

D2 is a modern DSL that turns text to diagrams. D2 is a diagram scripting language that turns text to diagrams. It stands for Declarative Diagramming. Declarative, as in, you describe what you want diagrammed, it generates the image.

This website is a free online ASCII editor that allows users to upload images or use a webcam feed and convert the visual input into customizable, text-based ASCII art.

#ASCIIArt #ImageToText #OnlineEditor #CreativeCoding #PixelArt

A technique for deterministic labeling from stochastic models, with benchmarked Golang implementation.

TextFX

TextFX

An extensible text editor framework that does things differently

This article will cover the top ten OCR libraries in Python, highlighting their strengths, unique features, and code examples to help you get started.

A Text-Based Drum Tab Editor

Ellane publishes every week a “Plain Text, Paper less” aka PTPL post. This morning I read her post Saving Safari tabs as Markdown links.

I don’t use Safari, I use Librewolf, a privacy focused fork of Firefox. And, I use Tridactyl, a Vim experience in your browser. If you are a Vim user, once you tried it, you can’t live without it anymore.

Plus a utility to help tame email subscriptions

Saving Safari tabs as a list of Markdown links is a good way to augment an interstitial journaling practice. I’m enjoying the uniformity of a mono font in Obsidian’s edit mod

This is a website, which means it sometimes goes offline