[lhl]

I set up paperless-ngx w/ a scanner attached to my nas and a bit of scripting to get the scan button working a while back, but then forgot about it.

For me, as someone who wants my docs on my own server, but well, doesn't care enough to want to constantly keep up with forks/changes/migration/updates, I've been looking for just something stable I can use for years (or maybe decades?, eg part of the appeal of something like Obisidian is that it just falls back to .md text files).

Curious if there are any long-term active users of this (or other systems) for handling all their paper and what they think about maintainability/longevity?

[nitsua2]

I had the same concern as you when I started, and after roughly two years of use I’ve been impressed with how minimal the maintenance overhead has been.

So far I’ve probably updated the software ~5 times across various releases, each time I’ve updated it been because there was a new feature I wanted rather than needing to pull in fixes (the software has been bug free for me). The update process is well documented and very straight forward if you are using their docker compose setup to run the application

[Wool2662]

I have been using paperless for years now. There was the 1 issue a while back when the original maintainer stopped and they had to fork it. But otherwise it's super stable. They keep to semver religiously and all your documents are neatly organised in original format on disk if you ever need them.