Perkeep – Personal storage system for life (perkeep.org)

I like this... right now I'm using a ras pi 3 or 4 as a file server and it seems to mostly work?

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.

I don't really understand the goal here. It feels like "wouldn't it be nice if instead of organizing a library, we just kept all of the information in a giant unsorted pile of looseleaf paper?"

How is this better then a filesystem with automated replication?

And here I'm still looking for a way, with one click, to create an offline backup of the webpages each of my bookmarks points to. Such that the offline version looks and works exactly like the online version in (say) Google Chrome (e.g. the CTRL+F feature works fine). And such that I can use some key-combo and click a bookmark in my bookmarks manager (in Chrome) to open a webpage from the backup (or the backup can have its own copy of the bookmarks manager... it needs a catalog of some sort or it won't be useful).

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Previously:

Keep Your Stuff, for Life - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23676350 - June 2020 (109 comments)

Perkeep: personal storage system for life - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18008240 - Sept 2018 (62 comments)

Perkeep – Open-source data modeling, storing, search, sharing and synchronizing - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15928685 - Dec 2017 (105 comments)

At first glance, this looks like way too much to trust in the long run. I use git-annex since roughly 10 years to archive files I don't want to loose again. Does everything I want, and is pretty simple for what it gives me. A checksum for every file, replication on a file-basis, does not dictate the underlying filesystem I use. Full syncs are rather slow, but in reality, it doesn't really matter if I have to wait 3 hours or 2 days, just let it run in the background and do its thing.

I wish bradfitz had more time to work on it.

I feel like there have been a number of attempts in this content addressed space and that nobody has gotten it quite right, not that the underlying idea is unsound.

Can it be used with AI to create your personal context?

First new release in 5 years?

Interesting idea. Pretty timely as I recently started working (again) on a concept cross-platform "superapp" and have been trying to think of a decent state/storage sync solution.

I think many of us builds the same idea nowadays with many different tools and services. It became the "project car" of tech enthusiasts. But it's complicated and subjective enough that I guess it can not be abstracted down this way. We'd need some common platform, something like Synology was vaguely going for.

Reminds me of Timelinize https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45504973 https://github.com/timelinize/timelinize

I've worked on and off on my own personal system which leaves the filesystem stuff to filesystems, and focuses on verifying backups/mirrors and recursing into archive formats. Also interested in warning of near-obsolete formats, like my collection of RealAudio files that are hard to decode these days.

"Blob servers" are essentially leverage cloud provider like AWS/Azure/GCP, not sure how this will help making "your data is entirely under your control".

like nas?

a plain old filesystem, esp on a small removeable device, is hard to beat

The logo reminded me of https://github.com/upspin/upspin which is an archived project that is similar in some ways