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Ask HN: How do you organize your data and maintain digital hygiene?

The organization of my digital assets is rather ... haphazard! Some files (create, downloaded, received from others) on one computer. Some on another computer. Some files are backed up, some of those backups are not regular. Photos are on the phone, but not on the computer. The phone syncs photos to a large cloud provider, but photos deleted from the phone don't get deleted in the cloud. Videos...

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Re:I left the startup I founded. This is how I feel on Monday June 19, 2023 @03:04PM (#36395252)
This is a great insight, explained well. Thank you for it.
Re:Why Seafile is unique among file sync solutions on Tuesday May 31, 2022 @06:01PM (#31575470)
> The defaults on the (self-hosted) server are also very insecure..

Could you elaborate on this? Which defaults do you consider insecure? Are there ways to trivially change some values for more security?

Not pushing back on your statement, just curious to know more about it.

Re:Why Seafile is unique among file sync solutions on Tuesday May 31, 2022 @03:13PM (#31573616)
An interesting take from the post is that nobody other than Seafile is even attempting to cater to the author's requirement. Perhaps it is a very niche requirement? Alternatively, that implementing the requirement in a clean-and-perfect manner is either not possible with the current state of the tech OR it is complicated enough that nobody else bothers to do it given the lack of demand?

It seems that although Seafile's implementation leaves something wanting (I think Option #1 of never sending the key to the server may be a superior option), the sheer fact of the feature's availability trumps the sub-optimality of its implementation. The author also implies that the implementation is "good enough" for his (and presumably most others') use cases.

Re:A Pragmatic Guide to Getting Things Done on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @02:13PM (#31508348)
The thing that really made task management stick for me was the creation of a personalized task management meta-model: What workflows do I wish to follow and which task attributes and views are needed to enable those workflows? After thinking through that, it became easy to find and configure a task management app in a way that it got consistently used.

Here is the reference I used for creating my own task management meta-model:

https://sagar.se/blog/a-task-management-model/

Re:How do you optimally learn a new programming language? on Friday March 11, 2022 @09:20PM (#30648388)
That’s such a brilliant idea. Thank you for sharing.