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by Jaepa 2850 days ago
I generally control the organization of stuff by the way it comes in, and then have a secondary means to have media organized that comes in from a non-standard ingress.

Most information is stored in of 3 ways

  1. Synced to a NextCloud instance running on a VPS.
  2. Synced to a home NAS running Syncthing (though I may change this to IPFS at somepoint).
  3. Added to Wallabag (A read it later like service)
Notes, List & Project based Todos

These are put into Orgmode which syncs with Owncloud. I can then use the WebDav endpoint to pull the files to add or edit on my phone.

Articles/Papers

These get added to wallabag then are accessed via an RSS reader.

Personal Documentation

Added with Camscanner, OCRed, and added to NextCloud. At some point I will probably also store these on my NAS, so I can extracted the OCRed text as a text file so I can search them, but currently the collection is to small to justify this.

Media

My NAS handles most of this, and organizes it using Emby. Syncthing is my secondary means for this, and Emby watches the directory to organize this.

eBooks

Syncthing to add to the server. A headless calibre instance then organizes it.

Pictures

Most pictures come my from my phone, nextcloud will automatically sync these. If the pictures are part of notes, then instead they go into Orgmode, which works with images as well.

There are a couple of other organizational thing that use Syncthing + Organize, but nothing of major note.

This is not A single cohesive system but several scoped systems with a standardize way to add content to organize (e.g. folders). Searching the content is generally done via plain text searches, or inside of the application that manages that context (see emby & calibri).

Links

  1. https://github.com/nextcloud/server
  2. https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing
  3. https://github.com/tfeldmann/organize
  4. https://github.com/wallabag/wallabag
  5. https://www.camscanner.com/
  6. https://beorgapp.com/
  7. https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/server.html
  8. https://emby.media/