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What I’m trying to do
So basically if you have ever used anything that actually is designed for the management of images, you know that they don’t really have any features for taking notes, or at least not very long notes and definitely not with markdown or something like that.
Essentially I was wondering if any plug-ins exist for this use case or what software I should be using instead? This wouldn’t be for every single image but more of for the highlights from a trip or something really cool and you want to add it into your notes in case it’s otherwise harder to find in any actual photo management program.
Things I have tried
I’m new and haven’t really started yet to use the program and was trying to figure out if maybe this was the right program to use or if I would be better off using something else and what that something else would be
What do you want to achieve in particular?
Probably something that’s a cross between normal note taking, an art journal, cool stuff I read/watched online and offline notion replacement…
Currently applying tags to images and then displaying a gallery view based on tags is very limited. There is this plugin https://github.com/TomNCatz/obsidian-gallery. It uses separate meta files to store tag information and apparently this is different from XMP. Without proper image metadata import/export scheme, using such plugins is not recommended to manage images. Essentially image management means working with image metadata.
Commonly image metadata is managed using Lightroom Classic (which costs $11.99/mo).
Yes I’m aware of the different standards for metadata as sidecar files and then directly embedded into some image formats. Oddly enough they are not supported everywhere - social media usually strips out metadata and image conversion or editing software might not transfer everything if the other format doesn’t support it or the program doesn’t support sidecar files. In this new era of AI generated art, it seems worth trying to document the process of creativity just as much as the art itself. Basically if you have like an art/photography journal/sketchbook thing for taking notes and keeping a record, maybe stuff will survive but also be easier for others to see and appreciate. Like turning the notes into a document/image and posting that along with the art or photo.
Using canvas https://obsidian.md/canvas might be one option worth of considering. Canvas uses open JSON Canvas file format which creates possibilities for AI and seamless import/export. Currently it doesn’t offer ways to annotate pictures directly i.e. to draw arrows into pictures etc. Excalidraw supports drawing shapes.