I'm starting to go all in on PaperlessNGX after discovering it recently in this community. At first, I started testing and exploring, but I realize that this will satisfy my needs for record-keeping. The one thing I have to figure out is the storage path. Today, Paperless will store everything in a single folder. That's fine, as long as Paperless exists. However, should I ever want to move away from it or it stops getting developed, I'm stuck with a massive directory of PDFs. I was thinking instead of organizing like so: media/YYYY/Doc\_Type/Correspondent/Title I would want to do this for existing documents in the system, as well as any new ones I create. What is the best way of accomplishing this? Also, is this the best way of sorting these documents? Any other ideas I should consider?

Let's keep it simple. I'm sure most of us are proud of Docker CPU cycles charted in Grafana via Prometheus, but I'm talking about the house as a whole. My personal favorite is turning out to be [Mealie](https://mealie.io/). I self-host a bunch of things for my personal use, but Mealie definitely takes the cake in terms of benefitting the entire household. I like the meal planner and the ability to hit the supermarket once to get all the necessary groceries for the week (I've never been able to achieve this before). I don't think there is anything in my stack that even compares with the benefits my house gets of out Mealie. My runner up would have to be any of the **self-hosted media players** (Plex, Jellyfin, etc.), but we also have Netflix and a bunch of streaming services, so not that impactful. **Home Assistant** would also be a close runner up, but it only provides great benefits for me, not the rest of the house. I think **Immich** will be on this list shortly, when it matures a bit more (are we able to import existing photos yet?)