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I wrote about this recently, mostly through the lens of the sentimentally important things like videos and photos https://joshvince.site/blog/20230903_little_metal_boxes
Do you ever index your metal box by taking pictures of its contents so you have them accessible and not forget anything in there?
Does anyone have access to an AI into which they could copy-paste this whole page and have it extract a ranked list of the products that people mentioned, perhaps along with links and counts of people who mentioned them?
The page size exceeds the limit of what free gpt3.5 will do - so, just asking before trying to do it chunk by chunk.
I use paperless-ngx with 3-2-1 backup. It runs OCR and indexes them to makes everything searchable. I can go back years later and search for “toyota” find my car warranty agreement in an instance.
More and more, I'm finding myself using Notion to track "life data stuff". I realize this is a very imperfect choice, but it offers the best tooling I've found so far for this sort of thing. I may migrate to some self-hosted open-source Notion clone at some point (there are a few).
Having built complicated storage systems during work hours I had a strong urge to build a home NAS. What stops me is that I have this Documents directory on my laptop, which was salvaged from another disk that failed about three years ago, and served for 11 years prior to that, and some documents were copied to it from a PC I owned before then... and going farther back doesn't really make sense as none of the documen…
I'm a bit shocked that all answers so far use cloud storage and not a single one proposes offline. I store everything in the cloud, because it is unbeatably convenient except for the very things mentioned: health, financial and legal. I'm not 100% strict either, because if a document has been sent or received electronically or can be assumed to be stored in the cloud anyways I really can't do much. I still assume tha…
Apple solves this problem well! Note that I use iCloud family which allows me to share the storage with my family. But for going down the list: A) Mint for most financials. iCloud for storage of documents. B) Apple Health for keeping track of my records. For ad-hoc stuff I use iCloud to store the documents. C) Product and service info I use iCloud for. Logins and credentials to them are stored in my family's 1Passwor…
My approach is to look at contents as data-first with tools on the top. A few simple patterns of file systems manage this. Right now, I use Dropbox[1] as a primary container, with a family’s Google Workspace[2] account to augment when it needs spreadsheets, documents, forms, etc. I use Insync[3] to convert and back up a copy in open formats for all documents from Google Workspace. I have been doing this for quite a w…
Many years ago I read of an organizational practice that I refer to as a "trash buffer". I have a fairly deep paper bin that I lay papers flat in. Any marginal paper documents or receipts that aren't obviously garbage and aren't obviously valuable go into this bin, always placed on the top. Every 10-12 months I pick up the stack and remove, then shred, the bottom 1/4 of it - without review or remorse. If I didn't nee…
My approach is to look at contents as data-first with tools on the top. A few simple patterns of file systems manage this. Right now, I use Dropbox[1] as a primary container, with a family’s Google Workspace[2] account to augment when it needs spreadsheets, documents, forms, etc. I use Insync[3] to convert and back up a copy in open formats for all documents from Google Workspace. I have been doing this for quite a w…
thanks for sharing - what do you use for colorization?