Document management, again

I used paperless-ngx for a while but my averison to managing an always-running homeserver has overpowered my desire to have a DMS. It was inevitable, and I have myself to blame for expecting otherwise.

I'm more and more convinced that a minimal, non-server solution is all I need. Although it's neat, I don't have the desire to organise my documents at all. I want to dump them inside my Documents directory, with whatever hodgepodge of hierarchy that I can come up with.

That rules out something like the Johnny Decimal. Maybe not entirely because I like the idea of Area and Categories as it's described. But I do not wish to maintain my own index. It definitely is a good starting point for my own, simpler, derived system.

I want to treat Downloads as one of my document inboxes. Every now and then, I want to prune it and move any files I want to keep over to the documents directory.

Speaking of inboxes, I also want my Email mailbox monitored and any incoming attachments that match a certain criteria to be archived.

I was really excited about spacedrive when I came across it the last time around. The core idea of spacedrive seems to be a virtual, content addressable file system. It doesn't touch the underlying files, just indexes them.

It looks pretty and the roadmap is exciting. But it's under active development, and not ready yet. Will watch this space because this would be perfect. In the meantime, I'll keep searching.