TFtfeldmann·Sep 2, 2022
Have a look at https://github.com/tfeldmann/organize
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organize
The file management automation tool.
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2 points · Open discussionI generally control the organization of stuff by the way it comes in, and then have a secondary means to have media organized that comes in from a non-standard ingress.
Most information is stored in of 3 ways
1. Synced to a NextCloud instance running on a VPS.
2. Synced to a home NAS running Syncthing (though I may change this to IPFS at somepoint).
3. Added to Wallabag (A read it later like service)
Notes, List & Project based Todos
These are put into Orgmode which syncs with Owncloud. I can then use the WebDav endpoint to pull the files to add or edit on my phone.
Articles/Papers
These get added to wallabag then are accessed via an RSS reader.
Personal Documentation
Added with Camscanner, OCRed, and added to NextCloud. At some point I will probably also store these on my NAS, so I can extracted the OCRed text as a text file so I
Read the rest
can search them, but currently the collection is to small to justify this.
Media
My NAS handles most of this, and organizes it using Emby. Syncthing is my secondary means for this, and Emby watches the directory to organize this.
eBooks
Syncthing to add to the server. A headless calibre instance then organizes it.
Pictures
Most pictures come my from my phone, nextcloud will automatically sync these. If the pictures are part of notes, then instead they go into Orgmode, which works with images as well.
There are a couple of other organizational thing that use Syncthing + Organize, but nothing of major note.
This is not A single cohesive system but several scoped systems with a standardize way to add content to organize (e.g. folders). Searching the content is generally done via plain text searches, or inside of the application that manages that context (see emby & calibri).
Links
1. https://github.com/nextcloud/server
2. https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing
3. https://github.com/tfeldmann/organize
4. https://github.com/wallabag/wallabag
5. https://www.camscanner.com/
6. https://beorgapp.com/
7. https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/server.html
8. https://emby.media/
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