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Re: Ask HN: What do you use for your personal document hell?

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I often want to build a camera app that makes sub-foldering easy. Such that when you open the app, a folder icon is there and quickly allows you to set the folder for pictures your about to take. It would have a timer option too, so you can save 'the next 4 hours are so-and-so's party.

But primarily, the icon brings up a quick menu of favorite folders, more folders, or new folder.

Do you think that would that be of use to you?

Re: Ask HN: What do you use for your personal document hell?

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post #9

I'm in the process of setting up paperless-ng. https://github.com/jonaswinkler/paperless-ng

I use it too. What I found really useful is the OCR feature. It automatically scan the document content and I can search it later via the web UI. Image document like ID card or the like is not really accurate as I found it missed major portion of text or the most important section (the ID number itself), but I can manually edit it if necessary.

Re: Ask HN: What do you use for your personal document hell?

#24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don't forget a copier for receipts printed on thermal paper that become blank after a year!

You can make the process much more speedy by laminating the receipts.

Is laminating faster than making a copy? I woulda thought the opposite

Re: Ask HN: What do you use for your personal document hell?

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post #12

I have this article by a Czech coder named Vas3k: https://vas3k.com/blog/nocode/ I saved it for another reason, but in it he solves for "X". Maybe it will help you.

He is most propably Russian, not Czech.

Sorry, I wasn't trying to start anything. It was my initial observation. But was it really the point of my post? Or are you just poking to poke...

Re: Ask HN: What do you use for your personal document hell?

#27

No nah nope. You don’t need an app for this. You need the classic hierarchical file system and good folder and file names. I put it all in a VeraCrypt volume so it’s secure if the device is lost or stolen.

> You need the classic hierarchical file system and good folder and file names

Such as?

Re: Ask HN: What do you use for your personal document hell?

#28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can make the process much more speedy by laminating the receipts.

Is laminating faster than making a copy? I woulda thought the opposite

I think the joke was the fact that lamination involves significant heat, which would immediately destroy the thermal receipts. Thus speeding up their destruction, not their copying.

Re: Ask HN: What do you use for your personal document hell?

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post #9

I'm in the process of setting up paperless-ng. https://github.com/jonaswinkler/paperless-ng

It's also one of my main used apps. Love being able to search sanely instead of rummaging through papers. I hate scanning documents in though, that's time consuming.

Re: Ask HN: What do you use for your personal document hell?

#30

I often want to build a camera app that makes sub-foldering easy. Such that when you open the app, a folder icon is there and quickly allows you to set the folder for pictures your about to take. It would have a timer option too, so you can save 'the next 4 hours are so-and-so's party. But primarily, the icon brings up a quick menu of favorite folders, more folders, or new folder. Do you think that would that be of u…

> Do you think that would that be of use to you?

Yes, and I would pay for that usefulness. I'd pay even more if it integrated well with existing file-sync systems (one or more of dropbox, syncthing, google drive, onedrive, etc.) such that foldered photos were synchronized soon after taking them onto that same folder structure on all of my devices.

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