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Or anyway a start on that use case. My non-technical spouse uses it..

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R. L. Dane :debian: :openbsd: 2y ago

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I'll check it out, but I do worry about the high mutability of text files. They're terribly useful for most things, and I use todo.txt (plus some script/plugins and a few of my own front-end bash functions for extra sugar), so I do love CLI and plain text stuff, but having all my business accounting in plain text gives me pause.

That may or may not be a rational fear. ;)

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5dcffa04... 2y ago

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We (many PTA users, at least) get around that by keeping the text files in version control systems like git or darcs. If there's a killer feature I believe this is it - being able to see every change, roll back to undo, try alternate scenarios etc. gives a great feeling of safety and confidence.

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