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In this post I share some my personal journey with some selfhostesd open source apps and how they helped me. Maybey you will find some stuff in there that helps you as well.

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[โ€“] ComradeMiao@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The best thing about paperless-ngx in my onion is the high degree of automation.

[โ€“] TurkeyDurkey@piefed.world 7 points 4 months ago

While I do agree that the automation is what makes it best over others, an onion I have seen expressed online is how there is no encryption of the documents in server. I guess you can only use paperless-ngx to hold a bunch of documents on a small air-gapped device, much like storing hundreds or more papers in a box somewhere. Though in my personal onion, the files should be encrypted on the server if it's ever meant at all to be hosted on one.