[Dabhand16]

I'm not going to speak for or against keywording Stephen.

I guess most of us use a similar folder based system, but I think that keywording is more useful to those with thousands upon thousands of images and might want to pull together a selection of images with no regard of date taken, location or any other reference to a folder type system.

For instance, 'Christmas' as a keyword will produce images of any age, location, people and still life - a mix of everything that Christms means. If you want to illustrate this theme, it must be quicker than ploughing through umpteen folders called Christmas taken over the years. Presuming the keywords have been used in the right way to get what you want from a search.

Of course, if you don't find yourself doing this type of search it is a waste of time.

Perhaps the Lightroom ability to save metadata and keywords in templates would take the tedium out of tagging the images?