What is a service you host you never knew you needed?
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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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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
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Thank you. Setting it up seems less daunting now. I'm going to try for setting up emails.
The android app is fairly functionally complete, and I only interact with my phone or tablet. In fact, for desktop tasks I have a Linux Mint VM I just console into from my tablet, a sort of sudo laptop.
In anycase, for manual uploading files my phone is probably easier. But, you're advice is good for everybody that's not me, sensible people.
Your comment about bindmounts might have solved my biggest problem with Paperless, in that it doesn't write to my 3-2-1 back up folder directly so I end up 3-2-1ing the whole machine. Which is fine, but I keep multiple snap shots of my LXCs so it's multiples of multiples.
</zpool/important/paperless:/use/src/paperless/original>
Specific file paths aside, would [path to zpool]:[path to originals] have paperless saving the originals to my zpool so I would only have 3 copies instead of 3*#of snapshots?
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Indeed it would. That's exactly how I have mine setup; with borg backing up the originals folder from the host.
If you are making this change to an existing installation; remember to copy the contents of the current originals folder out of the container and into the host folder you intended to bind mount, before you change the mount.
So, copy the contents of container:'/use/src/paperless/original' place them in host:'/use/src/paperless/original', THEN add your bind mount to the container config.
Otherwise you may lose the contents of the folder within the container and have to retrieve it from a backup.
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The extension is to get the rss link to paste into five filters
Five filters takes the link and gets all the images and all that then makes a new rss link that you give to fresh rss.
When I tried just fresh rss a lot of the sites I tried wouldn't get me images or it would be just the headline and I would have to click the link and go to the actual site to read the article
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My server is full of bindmounts. Too many bind mounts. It causes a host of permissions issues if I'm honest. There wasn't a storage problem I didn't solve with bindmounts. Except this one, this one I decided I had to have interact over SMB or some shit.
Thank you. With that problem solved Paperless is, currently, perfect for my needs.
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Kavita for my ebook collection—mostly tabletop RPGs, but some comics and sci fi as well.
I don’t actually use the web interface that often. I add books to my Kavita library, then scan the OPDS feed into my scratch-my-own-itch mobile app, Bookoscope, and download whatever I want to read onto my tablet from there.
Side note, PDFs are the absolute worst. Even reading them on a full-sized tablet is incredibly annoying. Anybody have any tips/tricks/apps for that?
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what do you mean you often switch apps ?
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I started with gitea but found it difficult to backup. I've been using gogs for a while now and find it minimal and easy to administrate.
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I run it in a docker on zfs so snapshots backed up to PBS seem pretty bulletproof.
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I usually convert pdfs to epub if its something I actually need to read and not just scan/browse. Often I would bother to even edit the epub in Sigil to fix any problems with the conversion.
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I like to switch RSS apps on the phone a lot because I can't stick with one, and none of them are perfect
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Works great for me, too.
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And for those using Matrix, it stops you from having to use Google notifications.
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Never knew I needed? Another vote for Paperless-ngx. I still feel like I'm living in the future using it. The trick I've found was initially setting up a good document naming & management convention & following it religiously for every document. The search function is fantastic at narrowing down results. Used in conjunction with specific coloured tags I can immediately see what I need from search results.
Fired up Immich recently. Amazing. Will be donating as I like their stance.
I also enjoy Linkwarden. Switched from the also excellent Hoarder as I prefer the UI.
Most used? Nextcloud with Joplin.
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Same as any piece of software you’re hosting, it’s up to you to decide. I run my instance on my Hetzner vm.
