Hi all,

question to you: How many of your selfhosted Apps are improving your life? Which apps are you really using on a daily/weekly basis?

Many of my running containers are just for … running containers.

Portainer, Nginx Proxy Manager, Authentik, Uptime-Kuma, Wireguard … they are not improving my life, they are only improving Selfhosting. But we are not doing selfhosting just for the sake of it? Do we? …

Many of my running containers … are getting replaced by Open Source client software eventually

  • I’ve installed Trilium Notes - but I’m using Obsidian (more plugins, mobile apps, easy backup)
  • I’ve installed Vikunja - but I’m using Obisdian (connecting tasks with notes is more powerful)
  • I’ve installed Snapdrop - but I’m using LocalSend (more reliable)
  • I’ve installed Bitwarden - but I’m using KeePass (easy backups, better for SSH credentials)
  • I’ve installed AdGuard - but I’m using uBlock (more easy to disable for Shopping etc.)
  • …

So the few Selfhosted Apps, that improve my life

File Management

  • Paperless NGX - all my documents are scanned and archived here
  • Nextcloud - all my files accessible via WebUI (& replaced Immich/Photoprism with Photos plugin)
  • Syncthing - all my files synchroniced between devices and Nextcloud
  • Kopia - Backup of all my files encrypted into the cloud

And that’s a little bit sad, right? The only “Job to be done” self-hosting is a solution for me is … file management. Nothing else.

What are your experiences? How makes self-hosting your life better?

( I’m not using selfhosting for musc / movies / series nowadays, as streaming is more convenient for me and I’m doing selfhosting mainly because of privacy and not piracy reasons - so that usecase is not included in my list ;)My only SmartHome usecase is Philips Hue - and I’m controlling it with Android Tasker )

  • alexhackney@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    11 months ago

    I have paperless running in a docker container on my unraid machine but it seems like it takes longer to use then what I used to do.

    I used to save all files to a folder system

    Docs -> Year -> date-sender.pdf

    Now it seems I have to manually do all of the coding. I thought that paperless, would learn who files are from and then categorize it for me, so that if I scan all my monthly bills and then 2 years later I need to find my internet bill for Dec 2019, I could just search for it and find it.

    While the search will work, it only works if I scanned it, tagged it spectrum and put the date on it. Seems like its more work to me?

    • Proximus88@alien.topBEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      I run paperless-ngx in a docker container. Have it scan my email for attachments once a day. It automatically tags the email depending on keywords found in the email and sender.

      If I scan a document to import I tag it manually.

      But paperless-ngx also has ocr, so it will scan the whole page and save that data. So I can search for example ‘samsung’ and it will show me all documents where Samsung is in. Even if it is not tagged.

      My docker-compose:

      version: "3.3"

networks:
  paperless:
       name: paperless
       driver: bridge
       ipam:
        config:
          - subnet: 172.36.0.0/16

services:
  paperless-redis:
    container_name: paperless-redis
    image: docker.io/library/redis:7
    restart: unless-stopped
    networks:
      - paperless
    volumes:
      - ./redis:/data
   

  paperless-db:
    container_name: paperless-db
    image: docker.io/library/postgres:13
    restart: unless-stopped
    networks:
      - paperless
    volumes:
      - ./db:/var/lib/postgresql/data
    environment:
      POSTGRES_DB: paperlessdb
      POSTGRES_USER: paperless
      POSTGRES_PASSWORD: super-secure-password

  paperless:
    container_name: paperless
    image: ghcr.io/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx:latest
    restart: unless-stopped
    networks:
      - paperless
    depends_on:
      - paperless-db
      - paperless-redis
    ports:
      - 8002:8000
    healthcheck:
      test: ["CMD", "curl", "-fs", "-S", "--max-time", "2", "http://localhost:8000"]
      interval: 30s
      timeout: 10s
      retries: 5
    volumes:
      - ./data:/usr/src/paperless/data
      - ./media:/usr/src/paperless/media
      - ./export:/usr/src/paperless/export
      - ./consume:/usr/src/paperless/consume
    env_file: ./docker-compose.env
    environment:
      PAPERLESS_REDIS: redis://paperless-redis:6379
      PAPERLESS_DBHOST: paperless-db

      The .en file you can find on there GitHub. But the over important part is to setup a language for it.

      # The default language to use for OCR. Set this to the language most of your
# documents are written in.
PAPERLESS_OCR_LANGUAGE=nld