[HowdeeDoodee]

Is there a program or a way to add searchable comments to filenames so I can search the comments later on. I generate a ton of file names in the work I do and over time I begin to lose track of what was done when. My ignorance may be bliss sometimes but not on this matter. Thank you in advance for any replies.

 

[etaf]

under file properties you can put comments - i dont know how searchable they are - but i think windows will search for keywords
you may want to test
create a file
right click
properties
summary tab
add some keywords

and then search

 

[angel]

Not sure if this is what you are looking for but if you right-click on a file, choose Properties and then select the Summary tab, you can add Comments. I tried this and then did a normal Windows Search for files containing the text I entered in the Comments field and it did find the file.

 

[angel]

etaf beat me!

 

[angel]

In addition to the built in Windows functionality described above, I searched online for an add on tool and found a few. I only tried one: FileNote
FileNote adds a right-click menu option that basically creates a text file with the same name as the original file. So you'd end up with tons of text files floating about but since it's just a txt file, you could add as much text/info as you wanted and of course they would be text searchable. Of course you could create these files on your own without the need for this util.

 

[HowdeeDoodee]

Thank you all very much. I have seen this info before but with the information overload at its peak, it slipped through the cyber portal. Thank you again.