Edit Trail

Local metadata index / v0.1

Search the work.
Not the folders.

Find every RAW file you masked, denoised, cropped, or touched with a specific module—across the whole archive, in seconds.

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Sidecars in. Paths out. Pixels never read.

An illustrated night market of hanging metadata sheets connected by cyan and pink edit trails
100%local
3sidecar families
0pixels indexed
JSONautomation ready

The route through your archive

Edits become an address.

A folder tells you where a file lives. Its sidecar tells you what happened there. Edit Trail turns those decisions into a compact, queryable index.

  1. 01

    Scan sidecars

    Walk XMP, DOP, and PP3 files recursively. Broken files become warnings, not roadblocks.

  2. 02

    Normalize modules

    Map editor-specific names and enabled states into one visible operation trail.

  3. 03

    Query combinations

    Require all operations or match any, then print paths, JSON, CSV, or a static report.

Browser-only sidecar bench

Try a trail before installing.

Paste XMP or choose local sidecars. Parsing stays in this tab; files are never uploaded.

Files stay in browser memory and disappear when this tab closes.

Match rule
Active operations

A four-command toolkit

Readable at the terminal. Stable in scripts.

archive / bash
$ edit-trail index ~/Pictures
Indexed 10,000 sidecars (9,998 parsed, 2 warnings)
→ .edit-trail.json

Keep the sign lit

The CLI is free. The next mile is yours.

Edit Trail is MIT-licensed and fully useful without payment. A one-time Supporter license unlocks a downloadable archive-audit recipe pack, a supporter badge, and helps fund future schema updates.

  • 12 copy-ready audit recipes
  • Lifetime access on your devices
  • No account and no subscription

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Your archive already knows

Ask it what changed.

No catalogue migration. No upload. One binary beside the archive.

Install Edit Trail