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  • These 2 are worth a careful look

    • ledger and its derivatives
    • quickfile

    I am from the UK and been doing this for over 10 years, with a CSV general ledger.

    I find the double entry accounting equation simple, but need meticulous book keeping and to fully understand the scheme of accounts to minimise the time spent preparing for tax, vat and PAYE along with annual financial statements to companies house.

    To work on my own I follow the ‘plain text accounting’ principle, ledger seems good, but simpler for me to use SQL on a CSV file and a Rust program to handle MTD for VAT.

    I’ve studied many accounting packages, all seem over complex and obscure the simplicity of the task.

    To work with an accountant I would choose quickfile. It is remarkable, and one very smart person I expect to choose the best application uses it so I feel that it has credibility.












  • I’d suggest trying FairEmail on your phone, https://email.faircode.eu/, before trying to set up an email server.

    I would ask if you have good knowledge of IMAP. That allows access to a unified inbox from several devices and you don’t have to own the server. It is far preferable to webmail for me.

    I host my own email server and use many devices all over IMAP. If you need a server, nixos-mailserver is my recommendation. You could then try Roundcube on top but I bet you will use IMAP instead before you get there.


  • Great, please may I ask if you would share other sources worth reading.

    I think previous Linux knowledge helps, just less needed for newcomers; NixOS has been described as capturing others’ 20 years experience for us to use. Nixos-mailserver is a great example. I used that out of the box and only with user knowledge of NixOS, none of mail tools. Otherwise mail servers are too hard I gathered.

    I’ve found lots more to learn about Nix for development environments.

    You might want to use nixos-mailserver first for production - after my research I was gobsmacked at how quickly it went. I relied totally on NixOS. Your milage might vary but I’d be shocked if it takes less than 10 times as long another way.




  • I have started to use Lapce (it is a bit beta) to displace VSCodium which will take time. Just discovered Helix editor as a possible daily driver. Both are in Rust and I run under NixOS.

    I am also new to Lemmy and happy to be guided as to good places to learn and share more information about all these tools.

    As a random tip:

    git config core.worktree ${PWD}
    

    Helps view --separate-git-dir repos in Lapce and VSCodium for me.