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Something I would like is to be able to add simple metadata to photos on my phone (then somehow or other I can store them sensibly on dropbox/icloud) The basic

• karlicoss 7y ago
  Yep. Ideally it feels that this kind of thing should be solved on file system level (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_file_attributes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_file_attributes), but the current situations with the zoo of file systems on different devices/operating systems is a mess. Let alone the fact that it's not cloud sync friendly.
• jborichevskiy 7y ago
  On a slightly related note: I searched “paper” and “receipt” in the latest version of iOS photos and was impressed with the results. Combined with date range and location, it should be possible to find a specific receipt fairly quickly.
  • choward 7y ago
    What about when Apple decides to change things up or get rid of that feature? In my opinion, you don't really fully own your data until you own the software you use to interact with it.
    • jborichevskiy 7y ago
      Oh I very much agree. A similar user interface running on self-hosted data would be ideal. I just suspect to get it used by everyone the experience would have to come close to what the Photos app delivers.
• aasasd 7y ago
  Evernote was good for this ― by recognising text in images and by adding text and tags to notes (IIRC they have a whole app for receipts and such things). But Evernote gradually turned to trash by neglecting basic functionality like text editing and adding bugs with each release.