A 2.0 Path to Wealth

Benoit Pimpaud
Geek Culture
Published in
5 min readAug 23, 2021

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Credits — Mathieu Stern

Saving money is a well-known path to wealth.

Still, keeping a portion of income every month for the coming days while enjoying the present is hard. Finding a balance is hard.

Banking applications don’t provide advanced features to track and analyze daily expenses.

They give basic information of every transaction but there are no user-based categories or aggregations to keep an eye on where and what you spent your money on.

I remember my father doing shitty spreadsheets at the time. Logging expenses in Excel sheets and then creating formulas to analyze what matters to him.

It’s still useful to control your financial balance and perspective.

Recently I went a little further.

By using new tools and programming languages, I created my own tracking and analytics workflow. All the way down to my inbox.

Logging daily outlays

If you’re using Trello, Evernote, Google Sheets, etc…: any combination of notes and organizational tools, you probably don’t know Notion.

It’s the new boy in self-tech town!

Notion is an all-in-one workspace with a lot of different features. It’s available on the web, as a desktop or mobile app.

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Benoit Pimpaud
Geek Culture

Data & Beyond Engineer. 👀 From An Engineer Sight: a periodic about data, engineering, and design: fromanengineersight.substack.com