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Cake day: September 29th, 2023

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  • Worst case I have all my OCRed documents as raw files which I can migrate to whereever.

    Files still exist. For my case encrypted as well. My backups roll on the data, not the container.

    But I’m not trying to convince you, I tried answering the questions :)

    And two answer your last question clearly: I survived before paperless, I’d get along without it. I find a new tool to mitigate my manual labor as good as possible - if that’s not possible then jo harm done. I know I’m flexible, I can learn new tools and I’m never vendor or tool locked-in. I have a high level of self confidence when it comes to my tool chain and how I’d adapt any part of it - from password manager to cloud storage and my mail flow.

    To be honest I couldn’t self host anything if I’d had the fear of being lost if a tool is discontinued.


  • For me it was a few hours wrapping my head around how paperless ngx works and its setup. I had a folder structure as you described already on my Nextcloud so I just configured paperless to observe it for new files.

    Where I spent more time then reasonable with was the tagging - you can automate it based on… Well everything.

    Now I just let it suggest me tags based on my existing documents plus add a NEW tag to the ones I’ve never reviewed. That’s just a reminder for me though to review tags when searching, I don’t actively re tag new uploads.

    If you have a docker environment I suggest just pulling a container up3, throwing all your documents in it and see if it would save you time or cost you time. Would be an hour well spent!personally the OCR alone is it worth it for me - my country still loves paper letters and being able to copy text out of that is awesome (IBAN, account numbers, etc - all the stuff that’s suspectible to typos).










  • Thanks a lot for your writeup! Thanks to you and others I’m now a member of a few private trackers and happily seeding around.

    That said could you please add a few tips how to find open sign-ups or recruitments for the more exclusive trackers? I still try to find some place where I find the doctor who christmas specials after all ;)

    The telegram list you posted seems dead according to another user and the forums and the big R always have the same few it seems - or I’m just too slow / looking in the wrong places :D

    Looking mainly for series and movies, not the most recent stuff necessarily.

    I’m not active in any forums just for the sake of activity for example although I’m a power user on the few trackers I managed to join so far.

    Any tips and pointers would be highly appreciated. Perhaps I’m also just too impatient, my arr sails are up for not even a month :D




  • I apologize - it wasn’t my intention to imply that at all! Emotional self management is a critical skill for managers - and that shouldn’t mean “go away, emotions!”. A trainer and coach I highly respect phrased it simply: “emotions are. They exist if we like them or not.”.

    What I intended to convey was “do not use a public platform to channel your emotions.”

    If this would’ve been a private conversation I would integrate an explanation of my current situation, feelings and context for my reaction. And also this sounds abstract it can totally be a “dude I’m absolutely pissed. I need you to work with me through this.” (this works btw in both meanings of “pissed” ;)).


  • Oh that was in purpose! It shouldn’t matter that I personally am angry. My employees should never NEVER try to prevent me from being angry but focus on doing the best job they can.

    That’s what I admire about Linus: he realized the negative impact his anger had on the performance of others - and fixed it!

    To be clear: I can be angry - but my anger isn’t the reason I want things to change. Being angry is MY FAILURE as manager!

    Think about it in another way: do you want your colleagues do things they thin prevent you from being disappointed, frustrated or angry - xor do you want then to move your collective goal forward no matter what you’d think.

    Another example: if I’d be the one to have caused this communication mess I’d want my employees to call me out - even though I will get angry the moment I realize I’ve fucked up big time!