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I live in a paperful country, and I have no scanner.

Important stuff has a photo taken, and it's likely backed up in my photo archives (Syncthing → Pi Storage → NAS backup).

My girlfriend still uses google and whatsapp, and I tend to send her important media in our chats, so we'd both have to be kicked out of our gmail and whatsapp accounts to truly lose everything there.



I did something like this for a long time.

One of the tools I found useful is Microsoft Lens mobile app: it's almost as quick as taking a picture of a doc, but it makes it easy to create a pdf of all the docs and bundle up multiple pages.

Over the years, I have lost access of important google accounts. In one occasion, I had a very old google voice number which I used from time to time. At an unexpected time, Google sent me an email asking me to validate that I still needed it within 30 days. At the time, I was traveling and unable to check email for complicated reasons. I ended up losing the Google voice number, which was the 2FA for a number of accounts, which then became irrevocably lost since the number was re-assigned.




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