Ask HN: How to share documents, notes, photos, etc. (within a family)

3 points by maddimini 225 days ago | 4 comments

I’m currently trying to find a good solution for the digital storage of documents, notes, and photos, as well as their organization and sharing within the family.

Which (cloud) services or software/technologies do you use to store and share 1. documents (e.g., scans of documents like tax records), 2. notes/to-do lists (e.g., shopping lists), and 3. photos?

Bender 225 days ago |

A tiny VM with the disk space to fit your needs using only OpenSSH + NGinx with autoindex enabled should suffice. Enable basic authentication on NGinx. Upload files via SFTP. Directories for your documents, tax records, photos, to-do lists. That's pretty much it. If family members need to upload files there are SFTP clients with a UI. Simple instructions with screenshots should suffice to get them going.

If you are not behind CG-NAT this can also be done from your home connection if it has the speed required to meet your family needs.

blacktav 225 days ago |

Nextcloud has matured given its support in Germany; Hetzner will even rent you a Nextcloud box- works for me. https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share/ Sharing of folders containing documents or photos or whatever works fine. Can share family recipes, shared costs for holidays. Also works as password manager, bookmarks manager and other things

Diti 225 days ago |

A good old NAS, mounted into the filesystem, because the UI/UX is well-known and anything else than that is confusing for my family.

I just made them install Tailscale (because internet-facing NAS was getting attacked/probed all the time), and I configured the ACLs on my end so they could see the NAS’ at its ts.net address.

gus_massa 223 days ago |

The photos/tax folder is write/read only? (i.e. not delete nor rewrite?)