docs VS paperless-ngx

I will recommend you review the documentation for the official Postgresql docker images which you can read here.

This is the full documentation for these images. Please note, this page has links to Docker official documents on volumes, etc., which are necessary to run images such as this.

We've just followed the official documentation to add a PostgreSQL database server. This will act as an application container, as our app will soon be depended on it. And in order to make sure that the database container is always started whenever we start our application container, we've added a new depends_on key to the app service and let it know which other service(s) it, well, depends on. This will make sure that the database server is up and running before the app. You may also have noticed that we've mounted volume to our database server's datapath a bit differently. This is known as "named volume". We'll discuss it a bit more in another part, it's not relevant to what we're learning here.

Nextcloud isn't hard to setup, follow the official doc https://github.com/docker-library/docs/blob/master/nextcloud/README.md

Looking at the setup for this (link here: https://github.com/docker-library/docs/blob/master/nextcloud/README.md), I am starting to understand a lot of the recent posts that we've seen & how much of a mess it still is :(

Coming back to nextcloud, the official readme of the nextcloud image has a few notes on how to set up both nextcloud versions.

Use the native command envstubst to replace the Auth Tokens in your Config File before starting NGINX. Example: https://github.com/docker-library/docs/tree/master/nginx#using-environment-variables-in-nginx-configuration-new-in-119

It's not clear why you want to split the web server (nginx) and the app (nextcloud). However, if you do have a good reason, you're in luck, they have a compose file that does just that: https://github.com/docker-library/docs/blob/master/nextcloud/README.md#base-version---fpm (version 2, but it'll work)

I steered a friend towards Paperless (and away from an LLM solution) as a way of searching/accessing GBs of architectural PDFs recently - so far, it’s apparently working well for them.

https://github.com/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx

Paperless-ngx is a document management system that transforms your physical documents into a searchable online archive so you can find your physical documents easier. With features such as tags, full text search, multi-user permissions system, this is a dream for those who like to keep an organized folder of files and documents.

Since last year I’ve been configuring and maintaining my homelab setup and it is just amazing.

I’ve learned so much about containers, virtual machines and networking. Some of the self hosted applications like paperless-ngx [1] and immich [2] are much superior in terms of features than the proprietary cloud solutions.

With the addition of VPN services like tailscale [3] now I can access my homelab from anywhere in the world.

The only thing missing is to setup a low powered machine like NUC or any mini PC so I can offload the services I need 24/7 and save electricity costs.

If you can maintain it and have enough energy on weekends to perform routine maintenance and upgrades. I would 100% recommend setting up your own homelab.

[1] https://docs.paperless-ngx.com/

This has been posted a few times already, but I cannot tell you how life changing Paperless NGX is for organizing PDFs. As someone who wrangles all of the insurance and bills for my house, this open source software is so damn good.

https://docs.paperless-ngx.com/

I maintain Bash script to quickly set it up locally on Linux with Podman. Give it a spin if you want to kick the tires.

https://github.com/jdoss/ppngx

Personally, I use https://github.com/joeyates/imap-backup to archive all my emails and then only keep them on the remote server for as long as I need to (basically until I read them and respond or download an attachment into https://docs.paperless-ngx.com )