What is a service you host you never knew you needed?
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How do you get around the requirement to run the official app somewhere?
WhatsApp disconnects you if you don't open the official app every 14 days or so. So you definitely need it. I run it on an old tablet. It's supposed to run in a virtual machine (running Android) as well.
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As far as I know the Discord bridge has some limitations, the major one being that IIRC it doesn't atually support calls. But just for chatting across servers it has worked well for me.
There's also the fact that you have to either trust the project with your password (as in, the the bridfe adds a matrix bot that runs on your server, but needs your pssword), since I think it uses the web version in the background (but then you can also use it for DMs and any server), or set up a bot on the discord server you want to bridge, which obviously cant be done if you're not an admin. It's a foss project, but there's always a small risk of it gping rogue.
I think I'd be fine with that. I'm using lots of Free Software projects, have Linux on my computers, wifi router, use random projects and Fediverse platforms ... So far every time one of my passwords got leaked it was some breach of a proprietary platform (last.fm, Facebook, ...) while the Free Software has served me very well.
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Is the document exporter the only backup system? I'd want to connect it to a cloud backup somehow if I'm going to trust it with all my important stuff.
It stores the documents in the form they were imported in a folder called '/originals/', with the contents sorted according to the rules you set in paperless. You can back that up however you'd like.
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Sure,
I used TTecks helper script to install paperless as an LXC. I then use proxmox's inbuilt back up schedule to grab snapshots of that LXC, and others usually I keep 1 "nightly"and 1 "monthly" right now.
Syncthing, another LXC, thank you tteck, has access to the back up folder. It is synced with a RPi 4 pulling double duty as my redundant DNS all installed using Docker. The pi 4 install is synced with my proxmox host and an off-site box, through tailscale at my parent's house.
There are better systems, like Borg and what not but this one is mine.
I have an "important" share on a my NAS that is also synced 3-2-1. It would be better if Paperless saved to my NAS directly, then I'd only have 3 copies. Right now I have 6: 1 nightly and 1 monthly spread across 3 machines, not counting RAID because the "b" in "RAID" stands for back up.
Sure,
I used TTecks helper script to install paperless as an LXC. I then use proxmox's inbuilt back up schedule to grab snapshots of that LXC, and others, I usually keep 1 "nightly"and 1 "monthly" right now.
Syncthing, another LXC thank you tteck, has access to the back up folder. It is synced with a RPi 4 pulling double duty as my redundant DNS all installed using Docker. The pi 4 install is synced with my proxmox host and an off-site box, through tailscale at my parent's house.
There are better systems, like Borg and what not, but this one is mine.
I have an "important" share on a my NAS that is also synced 3-2-1. It would be better if Paperless saved to my NAS directly, then I'd only have 3 copies. Right now I have 6: 1 nightly and 1 monthly spread across 3 machines, not counting RAID because the "b" in "RAID" stands for back up.
My oh shit plan: grab a back up file. Rebuild the lxc from that snapshot. Access my pdfs.
I keep once in a lifetime stuff: birth certificate, paper counter part to my driver's license, etc. They're still backed up. But, for day-day communications that I'm supposed to keep: 5 years financials and the like, tennant agreements etc. My old filing system was "throw them in a box, if I remembered and find them never. Or, try not delete the email they're attached to". Now I have a glimmer of a hope
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Easily set up, and easily attached to other things. Simple notifications about whatever is needed, like service health or updates, new posts on public platforms, etc. A simple
curlis plenty to send and receive notifications, and it works on Android without requiring FCM (Google infrastructure).Another alternative: https://pushover.net
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WhatsApp disconnects you if you don't open the official app every 14 days or so. So you definitely need it. I run it on an old tablet. It's supposed to run in a virtual machine (running Android) as well.
I've used an old phone just for this task...
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Immich! Backs up my phone pictures for my family with automatic backup through an easy app interface. Knowing my large album of photos on my phone won’t be tied to an endless growing subscription fees for…ever?!
Immich is fantastic. Yes.
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Is the document exporter the only backup system? I'd want to connect it to a cloud backup somehow if I'm going to trust it with all my important stuff.
So paperless works as a service that ties into your storage. I point mine at an NFS share on my Synology and just backup that share. The documents are all stored as PDFs still so worst case I still have “dumb” copies without all the tagging available if my paperless instance goes offline for some reason.
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Paperless - Pay slips, Bank statements, MOT records, Insurance policies, User manuals, restaurant menus. All filed and searchable. Letters I get are photographed, uploaded and immediately disposed of, zero stress.
Is there a way to share groups of files at once? For example I currently share tax files with my accountant using seafile so right now I scan everything and just drop it into a folder. I would love to use paperless but being able to share folder that can be downloaded all at once is a critical workflow for me.
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I love KDE Connect but I can't figure out how to get it to work at work. Probably some firewall thing. It works fine at home, but can't find my phone at work.
Definitely firewall things. Do you connect your personal phone to your work's Wi-Fi? I would really not.
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I think everybody on here is constantly keeping an eye out for what to host next. Sometimes you spinup something which chugs along nicely but sometimes you find out you've been missing out.
For me it's not very refreshing or new: Paperless-ngx. Never thought I would add all my administration to it. But it's great. I probably can't find the thing I need, but I should have a record of every mail or letter I've gotten.
Close second is Wanderer. But I would like to have a little bit more features like adding recorded routes to view speed and compare with previous walks. But that's not what it is intended for.What is that service for you?
Unpopular opinion from what I've seen in this forum, but for me it is Nextcloud followed by Jellyfin.
I use Nextcloud setup fory whole family, about a dozen all together. I even sprang for the DavX5 plugin for several people so we can share calendars and contacts as well as files and notes. We backup photos from our phones using the Nextcloud app. Several of us use it as a backend for KeePass.
We use Jellyfin for streaming; movies, tv, music videos and music. It is the backend storage and library organizer for four Kodi boxes, five browsers, several phones and tablets and a couple of Roku's. It works like a champ, even with the occasional library re-sync.
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Immich! Backs up my phone pictures for my family with automatic backup through an easy app interface. Knowing my large album of photos on my phone won’t be tied to an endless growing subscription fees for…ever?!
Is this accessible outside your own home network, or is it restricted to local?
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Is there a way to share groups of files at once? For example I currently share tax files with my accountant using seafile so right now I scan everything and just drop it into a folder. I would love to use paperless but being able to share folder that can be downloaded all at once is a critical workflow for me.
I do not know. I don't believe you can provide a share link for a whole tag, just individual documents. I'm not seeing an obvious way of exporting a tag either.
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Paperless - Pay slips, Bank statements, MOT records, Insurance policies, User manuals, restaurant menus. All filed and searchable. Letters I get are photographed, uploaded and immediately disposed of, zero stress.
Something a lot of people miss with paperless is its automatic import options.
There is a folder called 'consume' that you can place files in and paperless will import them just like you'd uploaded them manually.
Combined with tools like FolderSync or SyncThing you can have files on all sorts of devices automatically upload to paperless.Sitting down to use the flatbed scanner is a hassle, so I use GoogleLens to take multiple photos of a document, save them as a single pdf, then FolderSync moves them to my server automatically where paperless imports them.
Along side this; Paperless has an smtp mail importer. You can add your email accounts and paperless will automatically import new emails based on whatever criteria you specify. Imported mail will then be flagged, moved, or outright deleted from the mail server.
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Is there a way to share groups of files at once? For example I currently share tax files with my accountant using seafile so right now I scan everything and just drop it into a folder. I would love to use paperless but being able to share folder that can be downloaded all at once is a critical workflow for me.
The way you would do this with paperless is to create a user in paperless for your accountant to login to.
You would then grant that user permission to view/edit either: a tag, a storage path, a document type, a correspondent, or just individual documents. (or any/all of the above).
When it comes to providing external share links that anyone can use; you can only share single files at a time in paperless. If that's what you're looking for, I'd recommend FileBrowser. You can create a permanent share link that allows anyone that views it to view the contents of a folder and download each file or the whole collection as a .zip. You can even add a password to view the page if you like.
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Definitely firewall things. Do you connect your personal phone to your work's Wi-Fi? I would really not.
No I'm trying to use it with my work phone. I can't connect my personal phone to the work wifi since it needs a certificate (802.1x) but there's a separate guest network I can use if needed.
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Is this accessible outside your own home network, or is it restricted to local?
It's very accessible with a reverse proxy. Just please be secure if you choose to do so. It's been a wonderful piece of software and i will be paying for the lifetime server license this weekend.
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Something a lot of people miss with paperless is its automatic import options.
There is a folder called 'consume' that you can place files in and paperless will import them just like you'd uploaded them manually.
Combined with tools like FolderSync or SyncThing you can have files on all sorts of devices automatically upload to paperless.Sitting down to use the flatbed scanner is a hassle, so I use GoogleLens to take multiple photos of a document, save them as a single pdf, then FolderSync moves them to my server automatically where paperless imports them.
Along side this; Paperless has an smtp mail importer. You can add your email accounts and paperless will automatically import new emails based on whatever criteria you specify. Imported mail will then be flagged, moved, or outright deleted from the mail server.
You're right, I don't take advantage of any of these features. I should.
Partly because of lack of know how on my part. So I don't trust myself to successfully have it log in, get what it needs and leave everything else untouched. My main uploads, payslips and bank statements are behind their own apps too.
Partly because paperless is isolated in it's own little container (in my setup at least) so access to the consume folder makes is behind another step, I could syncthing it... I just haven't.
And partly because I use the android app as my main interaction with Paperless. The app uses my phone as a good-enough scanner.
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You're right, I don't take advantage of any of these features. I should.
Partly because of lack of know how on my part. So I don't trust myself to successfully have it log in, get what it needs and leave everything else untouched. My main uploads, payslips and bank statements are behind their own apps too.
Partly because paperless is isolated in it's own little container (in my setup at least) so access to the consume folder makes is behind another step, I could syncthing it... I just haven't.
And partly because I use the android app as my main interaction with Paperless. The app uses my phone as a good-enough scanner.
Partly because paperless is isolated in it's own little container (in my setup at least) so access to the consume folder is behind another step, I could syncthing it... I just haven't.
For this, Bind-mounts are your friend:
Volumes:
- /srv/paperless-ngx/consume:/usr/src/paperless/consume
Files get dropped in /srv/paperless-ngx/consume on the host and import to the container.
As far as setting up mail goes: it's pretty straightforward. Add an account, then create a rule for each type of mail you want it to manage. Specify filters like who it's from, what's in the subject/body, how old is it, etc.
And until you are comfortable, just leave the action set to mark as read. Worst case, if you didn't set your filters right; it'll unnecessarily mark mail as read. No big deal.
I just have mine move processed mail to a folder on the mail server called 'Paperless-Imported', which I manually clean out now and again.
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You're right, I don't take advantage of any of these features. I should.
Partly because of lack of know how on my part. So I don't trust myself to successfully have it log in, get what it needs and leave everything else untouched. My main uploads, payslips and bank statements are behind their own apps too.
Partly because paperless is isolated in it's own little container (in my setup at least) so access to the consume folder makes is behind another step, I could syncthing it... I just haven't.
And partly because I use the android app as my main interaction with Paperless. The app uses my phone as a good-enough scanner.
And partly because I use the android app as my main interaction with Paperless.
We taught each other something new: I didn't know there was a monile app. Imma go check that out
