Ask HN: How do you manage your “family data warehouse”?

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DuckDuckGo

#Search Engine #Web Search #Internet Search 1666 social mentions

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Google Workspace

My approach is to look at contents as data-first with tools on the top. A few simple patterns of file systems manage this. Right now, I use Dropbox[1] as a primary container, with a family’s Google Workspace[2] account to augment when it needs spreadsheets, documents, forms, etc. I use Insync[3] to convert and back up a copy in open formats for all documents from Google Workspace. I have been doing this for quite a while for our family, but I have extended slowly to immediate relatives while we helped them out with technology-related tasks. I haven’t reached the stage of complexities with the files and folder hierarchy that might break cloud providers[4]. Our family has a complete offline copy of everything, including backups of the photos, videos, and others. Everything is still in the works, and I recently started digitizing some old pictures from the in-laws. I stumbled upon some of their photos from around India’s independence and played with the colorization and animation thingy (that popped up a few months back). It became a craze, and their super large family gathered for a presentation, making many elders cry with tears of joy and disbelief. My most significant achievements, compliments, and moments of pride have been that almost all of the new generations in the family choose to study computer engineering or computer-related. And so far, the best one is the niece commenting, “When I grow up, I want to marry a boy who is as technical as aunty’s husband.” I have copies of the commercial ones (companies set up, wound down) since their inception. I also try to stick to plain-text[5], and as open formats as possible. 1. https://www.dropbox.com/ 2. https://workspace.google.com 3. https://www.insynchq.com 4. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37507148.

#Office Suites #Office Tools #Productivity 53 social mentions

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Colourise.com

#Photos & Graphics #Tool #Online Services