Common use cases

Anchorline is flexible by design, but it works best when applied to problems where change, history, and clarity matter.

Below are common ways people use Anchorline, grouped by the kind of problem being solved rather than by feature.

Personal and shared finances

Use balanced logs to track money without losing context.

Examples:

Anchorline is especially useful when you care more about how money moved than about maintaining a perfectly edited ledger.

Use collection logs to track individual items and their changes over time.

Examples:

Each item has its own identity, and changes to it are recorded rather than overwritten.

Track work that evolves in stages instead of static checklists.

Examples:

The timeline makes it easy to see how a project evolved and why decisions were made.

Use logs to track things you own, manage, or are responsible for.

Examples:

Anchorline helps answer questions about when something was acquired, changed, transferred, or retired.

Many real-world problems combine multiple ideas.

Examples:

Because logs share the same underlying structure, they can be linked and organized without special handling.

Anchorline works best when:

If you mainly need quick edits with no need to look back, simpler tools may be sufficient.

The next sections show how to apply these ideas using Anchorline's core concepts and guides.