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In 2023, Brazilian banks continue to send half of their notifications exclusively via Push and the other half solely through email. This week, I once again endeavored to streamline the tracking process.

Here's what I did: I utilized an Android phone (which can be a secondary device) for the bank apps, and forwarded both notifications and emails to an Airtable base using Tasker+AutoNotification plugin and Zapier, respectively. This base served as the input for my automation scripts, which are also hosted on Airtable, though a self-hosted script might be more efficient. I set up the automation to run daily or weekly, sending emails and adding calendar events for my expenses.

Ideally, this functionality would be integrated into the bank's system as a simple plugin, but it seems they're not keen on helping customers save money or monitor their spending since Monday.

One advantage of using Airtable as the initial input is the ability to review items and remove (or rather, check a new column titled "ignore this") them before the automations execute. This is still a work in progress, but it's already proving useful.

(edit: rewritten with GPT4)