Plugging a UPS into your computer via USB and making sure it shuts down in time during a power outage: sounds like a quarter-hour job. On openSUSE Tumbleweed with SELinux enabled, it took me more like three hours because certain...
Anyone who has ever collaborated on a long document is familiar with the problem: A draft passes through five people’s hands, each makes changes, and in the end you’re left with a document full of colorful strikethroughs and no longer know what sh...
I was missing an integration between Thunderbird and Paperless-NGX. While Paperless-NGX does offer a feature for linking email addresses, it wasn’t interactive enough for me, since I obviously don’t want to import massive amounts of emails. I w...
After migrating my document archive from ecoDMS to Paperless-ngx, I found myself missing a feature that had become part of my daily routine. In ecoDMS, it was possible to open a document in the archive and save it back there directly. The docum...
In July 2026, version 3 of Paperless-NGX was released as a stable release. This introduced some of the features I had noted as missing in my post about the ecoDMS document management system. This led me once again to consider switching from ecoDMS to the op...
Recently I was faced with the problem of having to convert a CSV file into vCard entries. With 10 or 20 entries you might still be able to do this manually, but I had over 200 entries to transfer. From this volume at the latest, it is worth thinking about a suita...
If you want to keep a shopping list, there are several options available. Some people write themselves notes, create a “Noitz” in the Noitzen app on their phone, set up a dedicated chat with their partner for this purpose, or—quite simply—use a piece of paper. One day...
I have to admit that I was a little surprised when I looked at how long I have been using a document management system. It's actually been 10 years. I had been on the lookout for such a solution from time to time in view of the numerous paper documents that I...
Anyone who has backups written to a folder will be familiar with the problem that although it is relatively easy to create the files in any file system, cleaning them up can be much work. This is especially true if you don't want to simply delete all files that exceed a cer...