Until today, I've avoided using the file Notes feature in Nautilus (Properties), because of portability problems. …but they are just so tantalizingly handy! …Adding notes to a like-named text file works, but requires more juggling that the Notes feature.
So I've decided to give the Notes a try; now that I'm (almost) exclusively using Ubuntu …(I'm past the point of no return 😉
So a couple (or three) questions have come up.
- Is this Notes feature exclusive to Nautilus?
- Is there a Terminal CLI for Notes …like the CLI for trash?
- Is there a tool which can batch extract/convert the Notes into individual similarly named text files (or something similar) for "portability"?
Best Answer
I am not sure about your first and third question but it appears that it is exclusive (by that I mean that nautilus' metadata is not portable) to Nautilus and I couldn't find any tools for extracting Nautilus file annotations, but here are a few examples of how to access file annotations from the command line,
Set the notes for a file:
Read the notes for a file: