Attachment metadata for advanced searching

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I do this manually or with help of AutoHotkey scripts.

I create text file with the same full filename and add suffix “.txt”.
e.g. “article.pdf” + “article.pdf.txt” or “videoplayback.mp4” + “videoplayback.mp4.txt”
In Windows Explorer they display next to each other when sorted by name. When searching for original filename, the metadata file shows in results as well.
Automatic checks for existence of paired file can be performed just by adding/trimming “.txt” suffix to the path. The same to open it.
Similar method is officially used/supported to associate folder with html file by adding “_files” suffix to filename like “a.html” file + “a_files” folder.

Now with Obsidian, I might switch from “.txt” to “.md” suffix but I do not want to. reasons:

Edit: also requested in Link attachment to page it describes

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