Giving my 60,000+ photos and videos a system
Part 1 of a series: why cloud-only photo libraries worried me, and how every camera and phone in our house now feeds one archive organized by date.
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self-hosted
From paperless-gpt to Paperless-NGX v3: dropping a container, cutting complexity
Upgrading to Paperless-NGX v3, replacing the paperless-gpt side container with the new built-in AI configured for Gemini via the OpenAI-compatible endpoint. Includes the one embedding model gotcha that took me ten minutes to find.
One Command to Rule Your Documents
I turned my entire Paperless-NGX stack into a single install command. One line, eight questions, and you get AI classification, encrypted backups, barcode tracking, and secure remote access - all production-ready.
How I Built a Fully Automated Document Management System with Paperless-NGX
How I built a zero-effort, AI-enabled document management system for a family