Welcome to Anchorline

Manage the business of life.

I’ve been building software for more than twenty years, and almost every tool I’ve touched has had the same flaw. They overwrite. They hide history. They trade clarity for convenience.

Anchorline started from a simple frustration. I wanted to track a few savings goals like a vacation fund, a car fund, and an emergency reserve, and still see how they all rolled up into one total. Every product I tried either broke the hierarchy or lost the context. I didn’t want dashboards. I wanted ledgers that never forget, where every change adds to the story instead of replacing it.

So I built one.

At first it was just a balance ledger that could have child ledgers nested underneath. Then came collections, ways to track things that aren’t numbers like books, gear, recipes, and notes. It turned out the same model worked everywhere. Anything worth tracking could live inside a hierarchy, append-only, with its own context and history intact.

That’s how the idea grew from a personal tool into Anchorline, a universal ledger for the business of life. A system that treats money, inventory, or even a reading list with the same integrity as a financial statement.

No overwriting. No hidden state. Everything explainable and exportable.

This blog is a way to peel back the curtain and show how Anchorline is built. It’s where I’ll share product decisions, technical details, and design philosophy in real time. Think of it as the development ledger, an ongoing record of what I’m learning, what’s changing, and how the system is evolving.

If you’ve ever wanted a way to track things that respects time and structure, welcome aboard.

- Lauren, for the Anchorline team (it’s actually just me)