diff --git a/bin/README.md b/bin/README.md
index 5c79aeae3..65c82992e 100644
--- a/bin/README.md
+++ b/bin/README.md
@@ -63,14 +63,75 @@ $ fin        # list the scripts available
 ### ft
 
 [`ft`](https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/blob/master/bin/ft)
-is a way to organise small finance-related reports and scripts using standard bash.
-(I alias this to `f`.)
+is a way to organise your finance-related reports and scripts using standard bash.
+
+```shell
+$ alias f=~/src/hledger/bin/ft
+$ f
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------"; }
+ft - finance tool: run financial reports and finance-related scripts
+Usage: ft [COMMAND [ARGS]]
+Commands:
+help                   show this help
+get-csv                download auto-downloadable CSVs (paypal)
+import-dry             import new downloaded transactions to the journal, dry run
+import                 import new downloaded transactions to the journal, logging and not printing errors
+get-rewards            show ada staking rewards pages at pooltool for manual download
+import-rewards-dry     import new ada rewards transactions, dry run
+import-rewards         import new ada rewards transactions
+rewards                show ada staking rewards pages, wait for download, then import
+get-prices             [PRICEHISTFETCHOPTS] - download prices for main commodities (default: today's)
+bs                     show balance sheet
+is                     show income statement
+a                      show assets
+r                      show revenues
+x                      show expenses
+ab                     show assets bar chart
+rb                     show revenues bar chart
+xb                     show expenses bar chart
+al                     show assets line chart
+rl                     show revenues line chart
+xl                     show expenses line chart
+forecast               print transactions predicted by forecast rules from last week on
+household              show a draft month-end household adjustment transaction for last month
+consulting             show consulting revenue
+bin                    [PAT]  show all scripts in $DIR/bin/[bashrc] (default: ~/finance/)
+OTHERCMD               [ARGS] run other hledger commands on the default journal
+
+Add hledger options to customise reports.
+```
 
 ### tt
 
 [`tt`](https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/blob/master/bin/ft)
 is a similar bash multi-script for time reports.
-(I alias this to `t`.)
+
+```shell
+$ alias t=~/src/hledger/bin/tt
+$ t
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+tt - time tool: run time reports and time-related scripts
+Usage: tt [COMMAND [ARGS]]
+Commands:
+help         show this help
+dash         show time dashboard, redisplaying when timelog files change
+status       show current time status
+what         what happened ? Show largest balances first, today and depth 1 by default
+dots         print line of N dots, grouped in 4s (suitable for timedot)
+x            horizontal time summary this year, monthly by default
+y            vertical time summary this year, monthly by default
+rweeks       recent weeks' time budgets
+weeks        this and last week's time budgets
+unused       unused & undeclared account names
+unusedcat    unused & undeclared account names by category
+budgets      show monthly time budget performance this year
+budgetsy     show monthly time budget performance this year, vertically
+budgetsw     show weekly time budget performance this year
+budgetswx    show weekly time budget performance this year, horizontally
+addacc       add declarations for all undeclared accounts
+hours        show a bar chart of daily hours
+OTHERCMD     [ARGS] run other hledger commands on $TIMELOG
+```
 
 ### watchaccounts
 
diff --git a/bin/tt b/bin/tt
index c15490c4a..9bca5d60a 100755
--- a/bin/tt
+++ b/bin/tt
@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@ sed=$(if  [ "$(builtin type -p gsed)"  ]; then echo gsed;  else echo sed;  fi)
 stat=$(if [ "$(builtin type -p gstat)" ]; then echo gstat; else echo stat; fi)
 
 help() { # show this help
-    line
     cat <<EOF
 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 tt - time tool: run time reports and time-related scripts