#183 Meta Data

[Worlds Best Minsky Modeler]

Something that summarizes basic information about the model. Metadata can be created manually to be more accurate or contain more basic information.

I have Powersim Studio, it has "Project Information" under "File in the menu. Vensim also has a similar feature.

[High Performance Coder]

In closing #1785, I added a Edit>Description menu item. For discoverability, I also added your suggestion of File>Project Information. When you see this, let me know which menu item makes more sense. There is also Edit>Author for setting/updating your name.

[Steve Keen]

Good one! I think it's more apt for the File menu--Edit is for things
within a model. So a File-->Properties form on which the metadata can be
edited would be good. That would include Author and a Short and Long
Description, Keywords... Then if Windoze and the other Operating systems
would display that in their Preview panes, it would overcome the current
limitation of only being able to use the filename as an indicator of the
file's contents.

Data sources, etc., could be added later.

[Worlds Best Minsky Modeler]

I waited 4 years for this to be featured 😂

[High Performance Coder]

On Sun, Feb 08, 2026 at 07:53:40AM -0000, Worlds Best Minsky Modeler wrote:

I waited 4 years for this to be featured 😂

Ha! It's finally become an essential requirement for the "Library
Feature", which is going ahead now that Ravelation is in funds. See
https://sourceforge.net/p/minsky/features/12/, and is over 10 years
old already.

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