Storing shooting notes in lightroom catalog

I've searched (both forum and google) for an answer to this question, but haven't found anything, so perhaps I am unique in my desires or I am just not using the right terminology.
I like to keep my catalog organized by event, with all photos from a single event in a single folder.  I keep detailed shooting notes for the event, which I historically managed as a simple text file editing using TextEdit and saved to the same directory.  However, this requires me to leave lightroom and fiddle with the file system directly.  There is also no way to easily see if the file is in the directory where it belongs without "right click, open in Finder".
Is there some trick in Lightroom, or plug-in that someone has developed, or feature request for Lightroom 5 that I can upvote?  I think what I'd really like is folder-level metadata, and a decent editor for it.
Any thoughts from the community greatly appreciated.

I think there is a plug-in that adds a metadata field for personal notes. But I don't know it's name. But you should be able to find it with a Google search.
What I sometimes do is this: Create the notes in a word editor, import the text (via copy - paste) into Photoshop and create a jpg from the text. Then import into the folder in Lr.
It's a bit cumbersome but it allows me to read the note in Lr when the image is displayed. With some "clever" file naming the text-jpg will always be the first image in the folder.

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