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Perkeep – Personal storage system for life

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303 points nikolay | 1 comments | 12 Nov 25 03:34 UTC | HN request time: 0.222s | source
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burke ◴[12 Nov 25 04:25 UTC] No.45896363[source]▶
I have used perkeep. I still do at least in theory. I love the concept of it but it’s become… not quite abandonware, but it never gained enough traction to really take on a full life of its own before the primary author moved on. A bit of a tragedy because the basic idea is pretty compelling.
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1. mikepurvis ◴[12 Nov 25 04:44 UTC] No.45896445[source]▶
I evaluated it for a home server a few years ago and yeah— compelling in concept, but a system like this lives or dies by the quality of its integrations to other systems, the ability to automatically ingest photos and notes from your phone, or documents from your computer, or your tax returns from Dropbox.

A permanent private data store needs to have straightforward ways to get that data into it, and then search and consume it again once there.