mx amber alex on Nostr: Say you have a shitton of documents on paper, regularly need those digitally too, and ...

Say you have a shitton of documents on paper, regularly need those digitally too, and don't have the physical strength to regularly lift heavy folders to go looking for the physical copies - what's a good way to keep track of both the physical and digital copies? Like some sort of inventory system that stores a digital copy of the document and with it the location of the physical original?

I'm sure document management software like that exists for companies, but I have no idea about consumer-grade software. Ideally, I would set up a few categories and then each time I get a new document, I'd scan it, fill in some metadata, and the software would file it away for me.

Of course this would also be doable manually with folders on my disk and a spreadsheet or something, but then I'd have to give each doc an ID myself and fill in everything into the spreadsheet and by then it's not worth the effort anymore.

Anyone been in a similar situation and how did you solve it?

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