Most of my personal documents are in html or pdf. Those formats have been accessible for decades and I trust I'll be able to access them to the end of my life, or convert them to something I can access. As to my paper documents from before I used a computer, I wouldn't be able to find anything, because they're not searchable. And you can lose your papers to various accidents, e.g. fire. Whereas I store my digital documents on several external drives and in Dropbox, and haven't lost anything in 25 years.
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