Ask HN: What is your approach for managing personal digital assets?

Cloud Storage Email Contact Management

Restic Landing Page
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Restic

Easy: Doing backups should be a frictionless process, otherwise you are tempted to skip it.
Pricing:
- Open Source
I religiously use Google contacts. It's the simplest way to keep people contacts up to date on Android. I archive all important documents in specific folders by subject and date. This is backed up to back blaze with restic. https://restic.net/ I use https://ente.io for pictures. I convinced my wife to use it, and she agreed to auto share her photos so I don't nag her for copies. It had simple import from Facebook and Google. I also keep extensive journals, which really helps to tie it all together. I can basically grep for hangouts, conversations, etc. I also separate work journal from personal, and have essentially a journal for each project. https://jodavaho.io/tags/bullet-journal.html for how. I religiously use Google calendar for all plans, you can easily search it for past events to get dates. I also use monicahq for some notes about things I should remember about people but the habit never stuck.

#Backup #Backup Automation #Online Backup 183 social mentions
ente Landing Page
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ente

ente is a cloud based mobile and desktop photo storage app with a focus on security and privacy.
Pricing:
- Open Source
I religiously use Google contacts. It's the simplest way to keep people contacts up to date on Android. I archive all important documents in specific folders by subject and date. This is backed up to back blaze with restic. https://restic.net/ I use https://ente.io for pictures. I convinced my wife to use it, and she agreed to auto share her photos so I don't nag her for copies. It had simple import from Facebook and Google. I also keep extensive journals, which really helps to tie it all together. I can basically grep for hangouts, conversations, etc. I also separate work journal from personal, and have essentially a journal for each project. https://jodavaho.io/tags/bullet-journal.html for how. I religiously use Google calendar for all plans, you can easily search it for past events to get dates. I also use monicahq for some notes about things I should remember about people but the habit never stuck.

#Photos & Graphics #Photo Gallery #Cloud Storage 69 social mentions
Joplin Landing Page
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Joplin

Joplin is a free, open source note taking and to-do application, which can handle a large number of notes organised into notebooks. The notes are searchable, tagged and modified either from the applications directly or from your own text editor.
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Free
#Note Taking #Notes #Todos 350 social mentions
Nextcloud Contacts Landing Page
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Nextcloud Contacts

The Nextcloud contacts app is a user interface for Nextcloud's CardDAV server.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Contact Management #Contacts #Call Management
Nextcloud Calendar Landing Page
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Nextcloud Calendar

The Calendar app is a user interface for Nextcloud's CalDAV server.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Calendar #Appointments and Scheduling #Email 4 social mentions