notefile VS hash-db

Then, I use the tool I wrote called notefile to add comments, tags, or anything else I want. It associated them by name, hash, and general metadata but does not modify the items. I don’t like how some domain-specific formats do that.

I wrote a tool that may help: notefile

Honestly, I don't use it. I wrote my own tool to tag and annotate files, notefile, which I obviously trust. And is open source so you can too.

I wrote a tool for keeping sidecars called Notefile. It’s not exactly what you’re looking for but has some features that may be of interest.

I wrote my own CLI tool called notefile which writes sidecar files and does tags. I use it on actual home photos and videos but presumable it works on the “…” kind too.

Yeah. It is really frustrating. I wrote my own (and I am rewriting it over Christmas to improve it) called notefile which uses YAML. It is certainly not standardized as it is my tool but the hope is that since it is just YAML, it can always be migrated to something new.

I wrote my own tool to do this called notefile. It makes sidecar YAML files. On macOS or Linux, it can also write it as hidden files.

Annote the files, both the exported and the matched, with my sidecar tool

This is actually the last and only time I mess with photo metadata. Anything else, I use my own tool to create YAML sidecars (often hidden but noted with a separate macOS Finder tag). I don't like to do anything that changes the contents of the file since it makes it sync again.