Ask HN: How to organize personal knowledge?

Re:Ask HN: How to organize personal knowledge? by Brakenshire on Saturday September 01, 2018 @07:39PM (#17894498)

Apologies for the naive question, but how are the native filesystems for metadata storage, like say if you wanted to store Author for a video, or Location for a photo? Do they have preset available fields, or can they store an arbitrary number of key-value pairs?

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Re:Ask HN: How to organize personal knowledge? by OvidNaso on Sunday September 02, 2018 @02:22PM (#17897959)

Well, there are several tag formats, ie Id3v1, Id3v2, Vorbis comments, APE tags, which have have most needed metadata keys already part of the spec and many can add custom pairs.

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Re:Ask HN: How to organize personal knowledge? by Brakenshire on Monday September 03, 2018 @08:46PM (#17905805)

Thanks! Just had a look, aren’t those all reliant on the file type? There’s no standardized metadata scheme built into filesystems?

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