Ask HN: How do you organize/store your personal information and documents?

I think this is one of those easily over-thought of things.<p>I keep a digital file system the same as my parents used to keep their filing cabinet. Alphabetized folders. Each person in the family (me, wife &amp; kids) has their own folder with all their stuff in it. I have every important document scanned and saved as PDFs. The physical originals live in a real file folder of the same name and organized structure inside the filing cabinet in the closet.<p>Product receipts for warranties and docs, insurance declarations, taxes, credit card agreements and scanned card copies, etc all organized as you’d typically see in a real filing cabinet with their digital PDF counterparts inside a digital folder.<p>This is all stored using iCloud Drive (we’re an Apple family) that’s accessible from all my devices. It’s actually been a life saver several times while on travel. Wife lost her passport once coming back from Mexico, being able to pull up a PDF scan kept us from being trapped outside the country.<p>Some things we really don’t need a SAAS product for. Just create folders and take care to keep them up to date and organized as you would an old school filing cabinet.

I keep things in markdown files. Private files go in folder that&#x27;s git ignored.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;nikitavoloboev&#x2F;knowledge" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;nikitavoloboev&#x2F;knowledge</a>

I don&#x27;t personally use it, but many of my coworkers and friends use Evernote for keeping their information organized.

I use a markdown blog with Github Pages. This way I have my notes online and can access them every time I need them.

I use github markdown or vimwiki sometimes.

Using Typora pretty much.