Nemo - File Manager for Cinnamon - (github)

• metadata

Emblems

metadata is stored by GVFS in ~/.local/share/gvfs-metadata/, use GIO API to have access to those attributes in your own program.

• Backup emblems - ` emblems are stored in ~/.local/share/gvfs-metadata`

$ gio info /path/to/folder | grep emblems # get embles
$ gio set # set emblems

• additional emblems Create a folder ~/.icons
  Put your own icons in there, named as emblem-somename.png
  Restart nemo with nemo --quit

• Can I safely delete Files in .local/share/gvfs-metadata

CLI

• Midnight Commander

sudo apt install mc

see also

• TagSpaces / github - a file manager with tagging and note-taking capabilities
  • tags are saved in filename or in sidecar .json