Media management - Caption auto or bulk entry

[KimberlyGreen]

@keithcstone

there is metadata in pictures that could be used for captions

If you mean something like the Windows File Properties, then I wholeheartedly agree. I already use file properties to help me organize my genealogy files and discussed it here:

Organizing Media and Data

If you’re interested, here’s how I organize my media. Since one of your goals is to make people easier to locate, my method might give you some ideas. First, I store media by macroscopic categories. Within those categories, there may be sub-categories. For example, in the Census folders, there are further subs for year. See screen cap: [01] For the media themselves, I name them by what the source is. Using Census as an example again, the typical filename goes from largest to smallest compo…

But @kevinm has a good point about getting people to agree on what file property field(s) to use.