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?

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    Been using anytype.io (self-hosted) for a month now and it has been amazing.

    Using it as a journal, bookmark manager, general note taking, etc…

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    I host Immich, Jellyfin , readeef, and open-webui for myself. From those, Immich is definitely the unlikely hero of the bunch

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      IIRC immich is like a google photos replacement. I use nextcloud for that on android but it’s not so simple on ios. How’s immich for ios, do uploads work automatically in the background? How’s performance?

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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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      @saltarello@lemmy.world funnily enough, I switched from Linkwarden to Hoarder. I like the smart lists. Just bookmark everything, check it later.

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        I’ve been eyeing that. Using linkding for ‘functional’ sites & linkwarden for articles at the moment.
        I like linkding a lot, but am too lazy to tag things properly.

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      I setup my own with a bash script for backup years ago that uses rsync, feel too invested in that now to change

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    That’s easily Home Assistant. It got me into the whole home automation stuff and I have gradually included more and more parts into it - including some health related stuff. It really makes my family’s life easier and helps us organizing it.

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      You’ve got a good point with Home Assistant. I have automations setup so that I barely have to do anything manually. So I almoat forget that Home Assistant runs quite a lot in my home. And especially in the beginning it was nice to setup but not really needed. Know it is needed.

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    Joplin.

    Ive been paying for Workflowy and honestly, I’ve reached my limit of cost vs value.

    I needed a way to do more than just bullets, like Evernote without the bloat, or OneNote/Notes without the megacorp, something I can export and read 100 years from now.

    I was surprised how often I use it, and slowly weening off of Workflowy.

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      I love Joplin on the PC, but i hate the phone app. I don’t want to do markdown on ny phone.

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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?!

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      Same!

      Did not realize how good it is to have digital albums with the family! And also having a backup is great as well, for a peace of mind.

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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.

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        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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    The one that was way more useful then expected is immich. I have over 100,000 photos I took during my life and it usually takes me DAYS to find a specific picture I need.

    I installed immich and let it AI scan everything for a week or something. Now I can search for something specific like “it’s a black square in the middle of the photo and has a little knob on it” and it finds me the photo I need.

    It’s also cool to see photos of people, organized by the individual by searching their name or clicking on their face.

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      Pet detection is sorta on the roadmap for 2025… I couldn’t be happier.

      +1 for immich, if I didn’t already know I would be doing photo backups it would have been my entry. For things “I didn’t know I needed”

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      I’ve only just set it up, mainly for the facial recognition. I had no idea that it could do that type of search too. It’s going to be really helpful with my faulty brain and not remembering words 🙂

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    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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    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.

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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 that to my server automatically where paperless imports it.

      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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        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 into my email, 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 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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          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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            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, your 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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                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.

                I remember, I tried to solve it with bind mounts before. I couldn’t figure out why it wasn’t saving to /mnt/important/paperless/… I think when I get to /originals it’s going to look like ./originals/mnt/important/paperless/… Somewhere it’s going to look like that. Urgh

                Thank you. With that problem solved Paperless is, currently, perfect for my needs.

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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 mobile app. Imma go check that out :)

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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.

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        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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        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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        Couldn’t tell you, sorry. I have Paperless in it’s own LXC (helper-script) which I 3-2-1 as a machine. Many duplicates, but they’re only PDFs.

        I can tell you I spent a small amount of time trying (and failing) to get paperless to save the files onto my NAS. I can also tell you, if I stretched up really tall I can just about scrape rock bottom when it comes to skills in this stuff.

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          Could you elaborate a little on the LXC, please?

          I was thinking about looking into Paperless after seeing it gleefully mentioned so much in this post, but lack of easy/accessible backups seems strange for something you wanna use to eventually destroy your only other copy of it (the physical letter).

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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, 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, 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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      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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        You can configure storage paths. That way, you can direct tags to be stored in a specific folder.

        You can then get the files for the accountant from your file system.

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        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 required to view the page if you like.

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        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.

        You could run paperless in parallel and syncthing your files into its “consume” folder.

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    Forgejo. There are so many things that can use a git repo but I don’t want to have them out in the wild, so I host them myself, safe and sound behind my firewall.

    I also mirror other github forks so they don’t go away whenever those services decide to rugpull them.

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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 host foregejo, but I have a small problem. I can’t get my ssh keys to work for cloning repos. I can’t only use https.

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        Is port 22 accessible and pointed at it? You could also run it on an alternate port and specify that port in your ssh config.

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          I’m using a different port and have it in my config. Sadly that didn’t work too 😭

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            In both client config and forgejo config? And docker config?

            It’s working for me, but I had to add a config to my ~/.ssh/config file

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        There’s automation and you can do it manually if needed. For example I have a couple of emulators that pull every 24 hours from GitHub just in case nint tendo gets a little lawsuit heavy. I also have one offs from GitHub that pull down when I want.

        You can also mirror a public repo from GitHub into a private repo so it does not gets indexed/ai trained.

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    https://mealie.io/

    Recipe manager and meal planner which can pull recipes from the web. I started using it after a few recipes on sites disappeared. My families most used app (besides plex).

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      I landed on Tandoor. I had a bunch of recipes on one of those web sites and they switched to a subscription model and locked me out of my recipes. I don’t remember why I chose Tandoor over Mealie, but having full ownership over my recipes is freeing.

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      been loving mealie too! tied in with home assistant for shopping list and the meal planning calendar has helped us cook more together and stop spending so much on takeout!

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      Thanks, this looks awesome, last one I tried was tandoor but didn’t really liked it, the import/export capabilities of this one make it a lot more interesting for me, to ensure I can recover the recipes or build them into markdown files if I ever want to migrate away from it.

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      I didn’t know if this was something I was missing, but man this could be my new number 1. The import function is really great. I’ve already added a lot of recipes. Thanks!

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    FreshRSS, i had it installed and setup with a fee feeds for over a year and only like this month has it become my daily read, i can get almost everything in there to just read through while I drink my coffee, sites I bookmarked but never go to can now come to me.

    Also with ‘five filters full text rss’ to get all the images in the feed

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      Would you mind elaborating a bit? I’ve been looking into good rss solutions lately and blogs without a feed were where I got stuck. How do you use five filters? How do the two components work together?

      Edit: Also, some sites WITH a feed like Pitchfork are next to useless when all you get is the headline.

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        Here’s a short blog post that summarizes how to use Full-Text RSS with FreshRSS. It’s a bit of a pain to add new feeds but it makes for a smooth experience afterwards.

        Otherwise, you could always just use RSS clients that have the ability to fetch full articles, Read You on Android and Fluent Reader on desktop both can do this.

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          That plus a browser extension that finds the right rss feed for you like get rss feed url on firefox.

          I copy the rss with the extension
          Then I paste that into five filters
          Use that to give it to fresh rss which will get me a nice looking post with images and text

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      Love FreshRSS. It really is something that I didn’t know I needed. I often switch RSS apps, and it allows for seemless transitions.