Guides

Notes on archiving paper, written for people who tried the self-hosted route and want something that asks less of them.

• PaperStack vs paperless-ngx: which one fits how you actually archive paper?

  A comparison of PaperStack and paperless-ngx for archiving paper documents: self-hosting effort, automatic organization, and what happens when a scan doesn't come out clean.

• Do you still need to keep paper documents after scanning them?

  A practical answer to whether you can shred paper once it is scanned: which documents legally or practically need to stay, and why keeping the box is not a failure of your digital archive.

• What self-hosting paperless-ngx actually costs you in time

  The real setup and maintenance time behind self-hosting paperless-ngx (Docker, OCR language packs, and the ongoing filing work), measured against what it is actually solving.

• How to organize and store paper documents at home without spending your weekends on it

  A low-effort system for organizing paper documents at home: what to scan, what to box, and how to find anything again without building a folder structure first.