[kimchidude]

You say you’re not interested in cloud based solutions, but I think this is at odds with any practical way through which to share files. Here’s what I do:

I divide my life into a core four DropBox folders, so one for family, work, projects and education. Work and projects contain folders labelled by year, which lets me access time sensitive stuff pretty quickly. I’m always learning, so the education folder is subdivided into topics and I dump cool articles and links in there.

To find what I need, I do a lot of general querying. I used to keep separate external HDs for stuff, but I’ve just found this adds complexity I don’t need, and in one case an HD went dead and I lost a bunch of important photos. I’ve used the DropBox approach now for seven years and have lost nothing.

My wife and I have DropBox on all our devices, so we can access anything at anytime and photo synching is automatic. We also a have synced SimpleNote account on our phones where we collaborate in real-time on grocery lists, plans, movie lists (we chalk up anything we hear of and want to see), and recipes. Plans with other couples are done through a bunch of dedicated Whatsapp groups, which I’m not a huge fan of but we have yet to find something better.

Important physical documents are scanned (stored in ‘Family’ folder somewhere) and the docs themselves are filed in a filing cabinet. We have a safety deposit box for paper walleted crypto, historic family documents and physically small historic family heirlooms.

[b20000]

I have small PCs running debian which I can access from anywhere. I don't need the cloud.

Do you store sensitive stuff in dropbox and how do you deal with the possibility your account might get hacked?