; A simple demo file with comments ! Comments can also be like this # or like this 2021-01-01 * Groceries ; :fruit: Expenses:Groceries $100 Assets:Bank - 1:Checking account 2021-01-03 * Clothing ; :skirt: Expenses:Clothes $69.37 ; payee: Clothing shop Assets:Bank - 1:Checking account $-69.37 2021-01-15 * Flights ; destination: spain Expenses:Unknown 200 EUR ; this will get translated to Expenses:Flights Assets:Bank - 1:Checking account $-210.12 2021-01-16 * Alphabet Inc. Assets:Shares 2 GOOGL @ $957.37 Assets:Bank - 1:Checking account 2021-01-16 * ACME. Assets:Shares 2 ACME @@ $957.37 Assets:Bank - 1:Checking account 2021-01-27 * ACME, inc. Income:Salary $-100 Assets:Bank - 1:Checking account commodity € alias EUR alias EURUSD=X format 1.234,00 € commodity USD alias $ format -$1,234.00 P 2021-01-23 AAPL 139.07 USD payee ACME, inc. alias (?i)(.*acme.*) account Expenses:Travel payee Flights ; Difficult things to parse that were in my ledger P 2018/01/14 17:37:11 BTC 13420.7 USD P 2013/12/11 EURUSD=X 1.376444 USD P 2015/08/07 ETH-USD 2.772120 USD commodity Acme_2021 P 2015/08/07 Acme_2021 1000 USD