Plex allows me to offload a lot of stuff from my laptop in a way that allows me to access it from home from a variety of devices. I'd like to see the same thing done for documents (PDFs, .doc, .docx, .txt, etc.). More and more people are going paperless, and while there's pretty good solutions for organizing these files on one computer (I use Yep 3.0 on my Mac), mobile options are limited. I would really, really like to be able to organize my documents into folders, have Plex keep track of them in a database and access them through any of the devices I already use. This would let me quickly search for, download, and view (perhaps print?) scans that I can keep in one, centralized and backed-up location.
This is far beyond the scope of Plex - and is never going to happen. There are a plethora of apps & services for document management. See Evernote and Google Drive.
Neither of those are an alternative, but thanks for the input!
Unfortunately, there are far from a plethora of services for this level of document management. However, Tagspaces seems to do what I was just asking for. They have an app for Chromecast, so hopefully they'll release a channel for Roku or Plex and fill that gap in service, which is apparently outside of the scope of Plex.
Wow...
Well, glad you found what you are looking for.
I don’t think it’s beyond the scope of Plex in the least.
I would love to have a shared documents library.
I would also love if Plex could offer a simple backup solution so I could map and schedule backups for any number of my servers, desktops and mobile configs.
I would also love it if Plex utilized the chrome embedded framework so I could have a web browser built into my media server.
The list goes on and on. None of it is out of scope. Plex even says, “Watch how Plex makes it possible to enjoy all of your media, whether in your living room, the car, or an igloo in Alaska!”
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