#77 - 🔒 Digiposte: your new electronic safe
Greg Taieb · · 3 min read
Today I'm offering you a somewhat special newsletter like I sometimes do to tell you about an application...yes, just one application.
Because sometimes you have to leave room for important subjects and I know that anyone who reads this newsletter may be concerned by this subject.
This subject is paperwork! How we digitized it, how we organize it and how we find it.
And the actor who provided the best solution to this problem is not one of Gafam but a company that may surprise you: La Poste!
What is Digiposte?
Everything is now digitized : your invoices, your bank statements, your health papers, your taxes 🥹,...
You certainly receive, like me, some of these documents in paper format by mail and the rest in your mailbox or on the websites of the different services you use.
In short, it's a mess.
And if I told you that it was possible to have all these documents in the same place that can be downloaded and stored by themselves ?
To be able to find them and consult them even offline?
Well that's exactly what Digiposte offers.
This application available on the web but also on iOS and Android will become your new safe.
How does it work?
Digiposte is a virtual safe, in other words a secure space that will store all your important documents.
Good Of course you can already do this by downloading them to your computer and classifying them in folders or loading them onto a Google drive or Dropbox.
Except that this involves manual and above all regular actions. Indeed, you need a certain rigor to load your EDF bill every month or your Amazon bill for each purchase... I would even say that you have to be crazy to systematize that.
That's where the genius of the application Digiposte lies. Rather than going to retrieve each document manually, Digiposte will do it for you each time a new document is available.
Concretely, you have to connect the services that interest you once and give Digiposteauthorization to access them for you.
The services are divided into different categories:
- Purchases: all types of businesses
- Finances: banks, insurance and taxes
- Housing: rent, water, gas, internet...
- Health: social security, mutual insurance, etc.
- Transport: train, plane, tolls,...
- Work: via services such as Mypeopledoc
- Family
There are truly hundreds of services available and clearly a large part of those I use the most.
Small presentation video 👇
Once each service is connected, it works in the background to retrieve the corresponding documents by storing them in the correct folders. Magic!
Really ALL my documents?
As you can imagine Digiposte does not allow you to connect to 100% of the documents and services you use. For example, the list of services is still mainly French (it's still the post office).
Fortunately it is possible to add files, scan documents and even organize this in folders to complete your safe.
So you can really store all your important documents in the safe.