Anyone here ever tried keeping a Markdown note next to their movie files? I’m talking about something like having a MovieName (Year).mkv and a MovieName (Year).md living in the same folder.

I was thinking it could be a nice way to keep personal notes about the movie, quick thoughts after watching, trivia, or even just a record of when and which version I watched. Since Markdown is plain text, it feels future-proof and easy to edit from anywhere.

Just looking to see how other people handle notes or metadata outside of the usual movie database apps.

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[–] isgleas@lemmy.ml 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I would use nfo format for this

[–] tatoko556@reddthat.com 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Could you explain more please? How can we keep notes inside nfo?

[–] isgleas@lemmy.ml 8 points 4 days ago

.nfo files are text files, so it fits your requirement. Media players, like Jellifin, reads those focusing on certain tags, ignoring the unrelated ones so you just can make up your own, even write plugins (for jellifin lets say) that could render said tags in your player

[–] arty@feddit.org 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I had a different purpose for my notes, so I made a webpage with a filter by rating. It’s decoupled from video files, but I only keep a few video files anyway.

[–] tatoko556@reddthat.com 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

that seem nice

[–] arty@feddit.org 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Here it is, if you’re curious

[–] tatoko556@reddthat.com 1 points 1 day ago

thanks a lot

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago

I use the inbuild Markdown notes in Vivaldi, permits to copy texts in it and insert notes from the context menu, sync to mobile or other PC.

[–] Archr@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I've been using tiny media manager for this. It supports pulling information from a bunch of different providers. (there is a subscription) but for most basic use cases the free version is perfectly fine.

Tmm won't do markdown, but it will do nfo files.

[–] tatoko556@reddthat.com 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

thanks. you may also want to take a look at https://lemmy.ca/post/38746526

[–] justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Some self hosted multi media libraries have comment or note functions

[–] tatoko556@reddthat.com 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I use jellyfin and it doesn't seem to have this function. More importantly I would also like to keep notes for movies that is not downloaded and not shown in jellyfin