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

I would like to see an "add a note feature" added to Lightroom in the Photo menu. Sometimes I will look at some of my shots and have an idea I may want to implement in the future and without the ability to add a note on to that photo both the idea and the photo it is attached to, slip out of memory. It would be very nice to be able to add a notation to individual shots for whatever reason.

it's a great idea indeed. This is what I am looking for.

it's a great idea and should be addressed....I think it would be super to have this almost as a simple txt file (don't get me wrong I'd love to upload diagrams and such but those could go in a subfolder) referenced that could be searched or viewed inside and outside of LR. I could see a need for all those editing or stack notes or collection notes in the same folder that the photos are in....that way if catalog corrupts you still have a hard copy of those notes.

It would often be helpful to make few notes to remind me of things (like lighting conditions & white balance thoughts, editing requirements etc) as I work through to refine a set of images. It would be especially useful when it will be some time before I can return to the images for further refinement and am likely to have forgotten a few things in between!

Can Adobe consider adding some form of "Collections folder Annotation" so users can make some basic notes please?

It could be a "speech bubble type" notepad as in Excel for comments perhaps, or some linked type of document perhaps?

To improve the "work-into" LR, for Collection and Folder definition, I propose to add a free-text-entry (like caption) and a status (todo, engaged, archive) (like flags)
- the text and status can be set at Import / Create.
- the text can be update on-demand (like Rename)
- the status can be switched with shortcut/mouse
- the text is displayed as tooltip when mouse-over
- the status is displayed as a icon of the node on the Folder & Collection Treeview
- the status is used to filter the nodes

With theses enhancements, we can manage our dev/print/export to-do project from within LR.

Best regards.
ManuFernandes

You can add something to one of a photograph's metadata fields but I've always felt that's not really suitable for annotating images, which is kind of what you're talking about. An annotation, for  me at least, should be a more visible thing. You should see it marked as a corner icon on an image thumbnail and I'd like to see it optionally pop up on mouse hover. I'd also like to see something on folder and collection icons that show the existence of an annotation.


And annotations, as has already been discussed, should be extended to collections, publish services, folders, groups and any other image sets.

There's been a few plugin type workarounds for this but they've never really been as useful as they could be because the SDK doesn't have the bits you need to make it work properly.

It's a good request because you need set-level information for things like shoot notes, notes on how you've put together, say, an hdr or panorama. Shots can often be made up from several stages, they can get complex. Annotations on stages and groups of stages with construction notes ... big plus.

Cann I add a postit at a photo ?

Please add the possibility to add user comments to any lightroom folder. Of course I can use the Finder (Spotlight) comments, but this field is not accessible from within LR.

When I shoot photo's this usually is related to something I want to describe. I now use the Finder comments field for that but it really is something lacking in LR. 

Or am I missing something ?