The NAS as Memory Palace
The NAS as Memory Palace
How shared storage ties together Obsidian, WordPress media, archives, generated documents, and creative project files.
Shared storage as project memory
The NAS is the practical backbone of many projects: a place for media, archives, Obsidian vaults, generated documents, and shared working files that should outlive a single VM.
Obsidian vaults
Markdown notes and project structures can live centrally while still staying easy to inspect, diff, and repair.
WordPress media
Uploads can be backed by shared storage while WordPress keeps normal public URLs and publishing behavior.
Archives
Old site assets, guild history, generated packets, images, and recovered materials have a durable home.
Why this works well
The lab has multiple personalities: web server, AI assistant, creative archive, document workshop, and community hub. Central storage helps those systems cooperate without copying everything everywhere.
Important lesson
Sync is not backup. A file being available everywhere is not the same as being recoverable after a mistake.