P: Add text notes to photos, stacks, folders, directories, collections

Well since this has been going since 2011 i'm probably spitting into the wind. :).      I would like to be able to add notes to individual files.  For me they could just gen info on who, what, where etc.    Since most are not printed it's not like older times where my mom or aunt would wrtie stuff on teh back of the photos.      Geeting older now i think of what happens to these files and what will the kids want to know.      I also wouldnt mind a brief note on what the heck i was thinking in cropping or porcessing.             I see others have asked for notes on a folder. Not sure that's needed for me ( amature hobbiest)  I was thinking it easier for me to do a word doc or something and add it to the file.    Thanks  

Please add the ability to add a short note to a folder and individual photos

On the point!

Different photo clients have different needs, and this often changes the way I need to interact with the photos in a folder of images. The use of the star rating system and the color coding system is rarely executed under the same rules and parameters from client to client.

Additionally, after shooting a large event (thousands of photos), it is very rare that I would sit long enough to download, review, select & categorize, edit and render all of those photos in one sitting. I often take breaks and those breaks can be long and even overnight and it can be difficult to remember where in the process I left off.

Remembering each and every individual system I create of rating and categorization for each individual client is near impossible. And remembering exactly what step I am at in the process of rating and sorting and catorgorizing images is also very difficult.

I currently have to keep a paper legal pad next to my computer and handwrite notes for each client folder I am actively working with. The problem with this is the notes do not live with the catalog, so they can get lost or left behind when I travel. The notes also don't live in perpetuity with the catalog, so when I go back, maybe months later, I have no idea what the catagorization elements (star rating and color coding) mean any more.

My suggestion, in order to make LR a more comprehensive and responsive program that assists in image collection management as well as image processing, is to include a way that I can attach an editable note page to a folder of images, where I can write and update my own notes as I progress through my edit. I can tell myself what each color and what each star-rating actually means to me. I could write a note to myself as to where in the editing/culling process I am, so I don't end up repeating myself or worrying that I missed a step or missed images. And all these notes would exist with the folder of images in the program and be there for me no matter where or when I am working in the program. This feature would make LR an invaluable photo-processing management tool, as well as a processing tool.

Thank you for listening!

- Manny

I want to make remarks for folders. In the moment i can only mark them with color. Want to see it as a ToolTip or in a special window. Is it possible in the moment? Any workaround?

Updated link:

https://buggeringabout.com/daisynotes/

I don't use an external retoucher, but I do use the User Comment to remind myself of the processes I have followed to prepare photos. For example, "Edited in Lr. Shake reduction in Ps. Heal/clone/patching in Ps. Final retouching in Lr."

What about notes meant for an external retoucher. So they would need to be location specific notes for each image. Like "bring skin detail out in this circled area). This will allow photographers to bypass photoshop and keep the image in its RAW form and send only one file to the retoucher. Thoughts? 

Excellent idea. I've been using the "Instructions" IPTC field for short notes to myself, but I like your idea better.