Feature request: text notes for catalog and photos

Question

I would like to have ability to add plain text notes — to whole catalog, to separate directories and to a single photo.
When I'm sitting with a client and walking throung photos, he often says something like: «Let's pick this photo but change color to blue and paint out hands». Now I have to pencil it, but why not to add a field to Lightroom DB for this kind of notes?
And a directory notes. I'm storing different photosets in different directories, there are a lot's of them, and sometimes it's hard to remember what kind of developement I've planned for this set.
By the way, it would be be great to mark directories with sone kind of color and/or rating. Maybe «ready to publish», «developement in progress», «just picked» etc.

Answer 1

Hi Alex,
I'm glad you found a solution for the per-photo notes.
Maybe in a while somebody will write one to handle per-folder notes. In fact, if I were to do it, it would just be a simple Lightroom Dialog Box that reads/writes a text file in your folder directory. And, if I do, I'll make sure the filename is configurable, so you could get a head start .
You would have to close the dialog box though to do anything else in Lightroom, then re-open to re-edit, and so forth... - do you think that would work for you?
Similarly for the catalog notes.
Rob