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I use pass and store all sorts of stuff in there.

For instance, I have five years of tax returns saved in it. It's a simple, secure way to store them for easy retrieval later.

To store:

   $ cat tax_return.pdf | pass insert -m taxes/returns/2017

To view:

   EDITOR=/usr/bin/evince pass edit taxes/returns/2017

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While this works, at a certain point it starts to make more sense to use something like Nextcloud.

Looked at the wikipedia page for that project briefly, seems like just a private file server type thing.

That seems like a different use case from what I am after, which is safely and redundantly storing secrets in plain sight. I don't put random things in my password store, I put passwords and other sensitive or easy to misplace files that I will likely want to find later.

I agree that you'd be better off storing most of your files on a file server. But that's a different thing, in my opinion.

Or just use plain old gpg and a git repo or backup service. Pass is good because it is roughly domain specific to passwords and secrets. I wouldn't exactly consider tax forms "secrets", but rather just private information. Adding everything private and the kitchen sink seems like a misuse, but if it works, it works!

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