Attempting to JD my physical filing cabinet

This is not a solution but perhaps still useful: have you heard of Paperless?

Paperless-ngx is a community-supported open-source document management system that transforms your physical documents into a searchable online archive so you can keep, well, less paper.

You need to keep some important paperwork in the original form but in reality, most of the time all you need is a PDF copy. So scan it and archive it, and then use Paperless if/when you ever need it.

Most other paperwork is even easier: scan it and throw it away! Then use your Paperless archive in case you ever need to look it up. That will be easier, too, because of full-text search, tags, and sorting.

All you need is a good document scanner and a computer to host your archive. This blog post tells more, if you’re curious.

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