# Cloud storage support

**URL:** <https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/cloud-storage-support/81175>\
**Category:** DEVONthink\
**Tags:** feature-request\
**Created:** [November 4, 2024, 3:13pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/cloud-storage-support/81175 "2024-11-04T15:13:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![troejgaard](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/58956e/32.png) [@troejgaard](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/troejgaard)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2024, 8:12pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/cloud-storage-support/81175/27 "2024-11-05T20:12:03Z")

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This is clearer. But I still think you are leaving out most meaningful context, and approaching this in an upside-down way. Instead of starting with a higher-order goal and figuring out a workflow that makes sense, you fixate on this one idea as the only solution. All because of a set of self-imposed constraints that you dismiss any notion of reevaluating. It seems unproductive.

(Missing context: What type of work do you do? Under what circumstances? What kind of data are you working with, and roughly how much of it? Why does it all need to be in DEVONthink?)

I am reminded of this perceptive post:

> [@Will DEVONthink's Woeful Interface Ever Be Updated?](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/will-devonthinks-woeful-interface-ever-be-updated/78377/48):
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> If you have a village bakery, you depend on people who live near your store to buy your rolls. If these customers say they want different rolls, the baker has to change his recipe if he wants to survive. But if you sell something all over the world, it doesn’t matter what a single customer wants. For every customer who doesn’t like something, there are 1000 customers who want it exactly like that. To make things worse, people who have been using a piece of software every day for years and cons…

~~PS: I don’t know much about WebDAV, but my impression from skimming discussions in the past is that it is actually possible to set up and rent WebDAV storage from an external provider, and that you don’t need your own NAS.~~

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