title: Apr 10 2018 - 06:36:48 PM
date: 2018-04-10 18:36:48
slug: 10-063648-pm
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link: https://jj.isgeek.net/2018/04/10-063648-pm/
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mentions: [{"title": "Look for extended attributes. Most file systems support them and they are exactly a way to associate user provided metadata to files. File system will usually just ignore them btw, so you need custom tools to actually do something with them.", "published": "2018-04-10T18:46:48+00:00", "url": "https://twitter.com/__amol__/status/983778340401184769", "author": {"url": "https://medium.com/@__amol__", "photo": "https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/374741267/me.jpg", "name": "Alessandro Molina"}, "via": "brid-gy.appspot.com", "source": "https://brid-gy.appspot.com/comment/twitter/jjdelc/983775826989715457/983778340401184769"}]


It'd be really cool that the filesystem supported some sort of user provided metadata, so you can add to it during the save dialogs. Does it exist?