Comment on Data organization
luftruessel@feddit.org 1 day ago
After setting up paperless and Immich I struggled with this as well. I had a structure before an was very attached to it. But both, like mentioned below, will organize files in their own way. There are ways to keep things like you had them, export them, whatever. But I deemed it to be not worth the effort.
It took me some time, but I just accepted whatever these do. In particular since I really like those two services mentioned. Data is accessed through them, and that’s it for now. I backup everything through proxmox mechanisms, which is way more convenient then messing with the data in any way.
Should I want to migrate, I can always cobble together a migration script that pulls my data in ways I like.
5ymm3trY@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
That very much sounds like me, glad I am not alone :) Your way of giving this control over to the different services is definitely an option I am thinking about. I am just not sure this is the right step to do. As you said, it might take some time to get used to it and might also require some restructuring of my data, but in the end you probably get the most out of each of these services as well.
What type of documents do you process with Paperless? Only “official” documents such as invoices, insurance documents etc. or also others like e.g. a letter to Santa Claus that you wrote as a kid? Only PDFs or also office type documents using Tika and Gotenberg? Do any of the documents change after you added them to Paperless? If so, how do you handle that?
luftruessel@feddit.org 1 day ago
I only handle “official” stuff with it. So invoices, some personal documents and the likes. PDF and image files, that’s it.
What do you mean by “change”? Never noticed anything.
I still go through the effort of naming my files properly before uploading. So I could just take all the files and still kind of work with them (outside of paperless). But even that is overkill I think… It is just the last bit I kept from my old ways of working with these things. The more I work with this, the more I want to keep this simple. If I don’t mess with all the settings and whatever, then I’m less likely to break things. And I’m less likely to end up with problems that no one else faces. Let’s say with immich: Say it goes shitty some day or I want to go somewhere else. I’m almost certain other people would also want to migrate their photos while keeping their album structure. So I just wait a little (or create something) and my issues is fixed. Instead of up keeping some folder structure that I only have to maintain and never use. This is obviously just my POV and I’m certain other people with have reasons to do things differently
5ymm3trY@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
Sounds like a good strategy.
I just found out that with Tika and Gotenberg you can also supply office type documents to Paperless. So I figured there are people using this for files that might change in the future because you e.g. added another paragraph to a text document. You essentially have the same file twice but in different versions. But I guess that is not really the use-case. It is more for “official” documents that don’t change anymore.