Good point. My documents share on the NAS just isn’t organized in a way that it only contains documents that are in a final state like PDFs of your electricity bills or something. It might also contain a spreadsheet comparing different options of a thing I want to buy. I don’t want to loose that file hence its on the NAS, but I also don’t need to keep track of it in Paperless especially not if it isn’t finished and can change next week. I also don’t need to have the overhead of a version control system because its not that important either.

If it’s updatable personally I have everything version controlled - and I mean EVERYTHING, from CV over tutorials to construction ideas - hosted locally on forgejo.

That is actually what I am planning to setup as well. I think I could live with an approach like:

• Everything that doesn’t change is shoved into Paperless and managed in there
• Important documents that can change are handled by a version control system
• There is one share on the NAS that handles all types of other documents that should be preserved but don’t fall into the other categories. As a bonus, I could even checkout the version controlled files there so that I have a single place for all my non-Paperless documents.