Using local tf state is mostly reasonable for a personal project, but I wanted to learn TF for enterprise reasons too, so I'm using Digital Ocean Spaces as an s3 compatible storage system. This is an explicit risk!! Sensitive shit can get written to those locations and leak keys or sensitive data to others.
See the ~Exceptions~ area under secrets for mroe info.
** Importing
If and when you need to import stuff from outside of Terraform, use ~terraformer~: