Self-Hosting Paperless-ngx: Turning a Pile of Scanned Paper Into a Searchable Archive
Most homelab stacks start with the fun stuff, media servers, dashboards, maybe a VPN. The boring problem that never goes away is paper: tax documents, insurance paperwork, warranty receipts, kids’ school forms, the occasional letter that actually matters. Paperless-ngx exists to solve exactly that, and it’s one of the few self-hosted apps where the payoff shows up the first week instead of months later. Scan something in, and from then on you can find it by typing a word that appears anywhere in it, not by remembering which folder you filed it under three years ago. ...