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Ahh g I don’t use paperless as an exclusive document storage but as a pure manager. It searches and tags but doesn’t have exclusivity over any files but it’s own indices!

It doesn’t provide more value than jellyfin in that regard - make it visible and accessible.

Worst case I have all my OCRed documents as raw files which I can migrate to whereever.

Files still exist. For my case encrypted as well. My backups roll on the data, not the container.

But I’m not trying to convince you, I tried answering the questions :)

And two answer your last question clearly: I survived before paperless, I’d get along without it. I find a new tool to mitigate my manual labor as good as possible - if that’s not possible then jo harm done. I know I’m flexible, I can learn new tools and I’m never vendor or tool locked-in. I have a high level of self confidence when it comes to my tool chain and how I’d adapt any part of it - from password manager to cloud storage and my mail flow.

To be honest I couldn’t self host anything if I’d had the fear of being lost if a tool is discontinued.

For me it was a few hours wrapping my head around how paperless ngx works and its setup. I had a folder structure as you described already on my Nextcloud so I just configured paperless to observe it for new files.

Where I spent more time then reasonable with was the tagging - you can automate it based on… Well everything.

Now I just let it suggest me tags based on my existing documents plus add a NEW tag to the ones I’ve never reviewed. That’s just a reminder for me though to review tags when searching, I don’t actively re tag new uploads.

If you have a docker environment I suggest just pulling a container up3, throwing all your documents in it and see if it would save you time or cost you time. Would be an hour well spent!personally the OCR alone is it worth it for me - my country still loves paper letters and being able to copy text out of that is awesome (IBAN, account numbers, etc - all the stuff that’s suspectible to typos).

The three letters OCR, tagging, fuzzy search and ease of use are the ones for me.

I never needed the date for a letter but quite often its context for example.

Your suggestion just digitalizes physical folders. If that’s enough for you ok - but you’re missing out.

Not saying that I’m jealous or anything but… I am. Please insert here a personal insult that would offend you adequately!

I have several bank accounts and at least here they all use their dedicated app for mandatory 2fa - Bastards…

And yes, literally: don’t want to use our app? Don’t get an account with us!

Just curious is there any recent quantitative source to this? That statement was “common wisdom” already 20 years ago - 10 years ago I decided to just give it a try - and had issues three times in ten years, all three with missconfigured exchange servers.

And I’m not with a high profile provider either.

Just to make sure: I’m not claiming that you’re wrong, I’m simply curious on how lucky exactly I got!

Ohhh now that is awesome and makes sense! Thanks a lot for that find :)

But when I mount a shared /usr on a remote machine it will always have the mount point /usr/local as empty folder - and either have an empty folder or have a mount target that is dependent on a network resource - that’s why for me it’s so unintuitive.

But then again I started with network stuff way more than a decade after all this got created 🤣

This is really helpful, thank you!

I never understood why the shareable /usr is parent to the non shareable /usr/local. Wouldn’t a /usr/shared be way easier especially in the early network days?

If anyone has a link or some insights into this historical nitbit I’d highly appreciate it!

Thanks a lot for your writeup! Thanks to you and others I’m now a member of a few private trackers and happily seeding around.

That said could you please add a few tips how to find open sign-ups or recruitments for the more exclusive trackers? I still try to find some place where I find the doctor who christmas specials after all ;)

The telegram list you posted seems dead according to another user and the forums and the big R always have the same few it seems - or I’m just too slow / looking in the wrong places :D

Looking mainly for series and movies, not the most recent stuff necessarily.

I’m not active in any forums just for the sake of activity for example although I’m a power user on the few trackers I managed to join so far.

Any tips and pointers would be highly appreciated. Perhaps I’m also just too impatient, my arr sails are up for not even a month :D