Comment on Service for letter/PDF archival
SciPiTie@iusearchlinux.fyi 9 months agoWorst 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.
TCB13@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I was just trying to see how you’re thinking about the possible lock-in and dependency on those platforms… also exposing my real concerns with them.
Yeah but most thing we self host are more “fungible” be it a torrent client, RSS aggregator etc. can be quickly replaced by another alternative as they hold little to no data and even sometimes the data they hold doesn’t even have any value. A document management solution however is a long term thing that holds important documents.
mellitiger@iusearchlinux.fyi 9 months ago
My way of using paperless-ngx includes an automatic export to plain pdf-files which are synced via syncthing.
Everything is accessible with a normal filesystem and over the keepass-gui…
SciPiTie@iusearchlinux.fyi 9 months ago
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.