Best Digital Product Organizer?

[chuckdee]

That looks pretty cool! I started to write my own, but I quickly realised I didn't care that much. You stuck with it though! All of the information is added manually?

 

[Thagdal]

I just use windows normal folder structure, and have all my stuff on a spare drive.

That said, for ebooks, I use calibre (free calibre - E-book management), which would probably work for gaming PDFs too.

 

[chuckdee]

I just use windows normal folder structure, and have all my stuff on a spare drive.

That said, for ebooks, I use calibre (free calibre - E-book management), which would probably work for gaming PDFs too.

That's what I meant in mine- it does work. And you can use your own folder structure and just point calibre to it instead of creating a library.

 

[Bryan Sycamore]

That looks pretty cool! I started to write my own, but I quickly realised I didn't care that much. You stuck with it though! All of the information is added manually?

Mostly. The image is scrapped from the pdf, where I have a pdf. The description is pulled from pdf too, where it can. Rest is manual

 

[MNblockhead]

To my knowledge, he was sharing a directory with us, his group, for a PBEM. In one of the GM folders, he had a copyrighted file. Not public, just accidentally in a sub-folder that was included in the hierarchy. Gone with no recourse. The worst part was, it synced to his home computer and deleted all of his files on his home computer before he caught it. That's the unforgiveable part to me.

Wow. Yeah, Google’s general Terms allow them to remove or delete content that infringes copyrights or violates other policies, and they can also suspend or terminate the account if you “materially or repeatedly breach these terms”. But I'm sure with the free accounts this is automated and that there is little recourse with an overly aggressive algorithm. It definitely makes sense to have offline, local backups of your files.

I have a Business Standard account which gives me a bit more protection as they have a centralized admin team for this plus some SLA protection. But they can still easily remove an infringing file with only 24 hours notice. But the chance of Google suspending or terminating a business standard or higher-level subscription account seems highly unlikely without repeated or egregious infringements.

I still back up my stuff. For my most important files, I have the folder synch'd to my local drive and have those files backed up to another location offline. I also do a Google Takeout backup every couple of months.

I've been thinking of getting a Synology NAS for some time, which has the ability to link to and backup Google Drive accounts. I wouldn't be getting it just for that, but it would simplify offline backups.

 

[chuckdee]

I've been thinking of getting a Synology NAS for some time, which has the ability to link to and backup Google Drive accounts. I wouldn't be getting it just for that, but it would simplify offline backups.

I love my Synology NAS, but have found that just using Syncovery is a better option. It's much more fully-featured than anything in the NAS OS, and I can use it for several different purposes (I have several different backup jobs going to several different locations that run under different schedules). I don't even just use one cloud service - I use AWS S3 storage for a cold-storage area where I store things that I don't want to waste my normal cloud space on, using Syncovery to take it from my onedrive to the S3 cold-storage as things age out of me touching them.

 

[SlyFlourish]

I wrote an article about organizing PDFs. I have thousands and find this process works for me:

Organize RPG PDFs and Other Digital Stuff

One effective way to organize digital RPG material is by making a directory structure of "RPGs", game system, publisher (if needed), and product type (if needed). For example /RPGs/5e/Sly Flourish/la...

slyflourish.com

 

[SlyFlourish]

Since we're talking backups. I have a pretty crazy backup system.

My most important files and folders are in my Mac's "Documents" folder. This is also on iCloud.

Every week I use rsync to back this up to my Raspberry Pi in my home which likewise has a daily Rsync to mirror its two drives. Sort of a low-class RAID 1. Another CRON on that Raspberry Pi runs rclone to copy data to an Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive. It's like a dollar per terabyte for absolutely catastrophic failures. It has versioning on there too.

I also have two Time Machine drives on my Mac which I switch out every six months or so.

So yeah, lots of backups. The only time I've needed them was when I accidentally ran a rsync --delete on my Documents directory the wrong direction. Time Machine had me back up in an hour. So yeah, I needed the backup because I was messing too much with backups...

 

[Nikosandros]

I have a ton of PDFs, and I've neatly stored them in nested sub-directories. However, I'd really like to have an easy tagging system, which I could use for searches.

 

[chuckdee]

Another CRON on that Raspberry Pi runs rclone to copy data to an Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive.

Do you put everything there? That's where I have my untouched stuff, but I don't put things I actually access there.