I was looking for a way to easily upload files to my paperless instance (other than using the Web UI). I just wanted to drag and drop files into a folder on my computer and have them auto upload.

I experimented with mounting the consume folder through a WebDAV container (couldn’t get it to work) and tried a custom folder action (I’m on macOS) with a Python script that uploaded my documents via SFTP, but that added too much complexity and wasn’t 100% foolproof.

The simplest solution was a bidirectional SyncThing between a local folder and the consume folder on my server.

TLDR; the simplest way is probably the best. Shout out to the SyncThing devs.