Post #2780426
2026-05-11 11:13 UTC
If it's digital, I'm keeping it. A scan it's just a few kilobytes. And for a normal private person, the storage amount needed is absolutely minimal. Even if you get one important document per mail per day and scan it with a 1MB filesize, you're looking at 365MB per year. If you're 20 right now and are looking at a life expectancy of 85, that would be 365MB*65 = 23GB of storage.
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@probable_possum@leminal.space 2026-05-11 13:39
You are right. Backup and storage of scans should be not a big deal. But the paper documents: Some things like birth and education certificates need to be kept indefinitely. Some documents like receipts need to be kept for a while. Some documents can be discarded after scan and some are PDFs entirely. I. E. How can I tell from the scan if there is a paper document and where is it stored? Or How do I age out paper which is not needed any more?