Best practices: column meta information and descriptions?

Hi all,

I’m a long-time Alteryx user switching over to KNIME. Very impressed by the platform and the community.

I wanted to know what the best practices are for column documentation and what everyone is using. There does not seem to be a way of adding metadata column descriptions in KNIME, i.e. not the name, but a textual description of what is inside the column that persists throughout the workflow.

It would be great to have the ability to document in detail the contents of the column for easy reference if the workflow has to be edited a year or so later. Currently, the only way I have found is either a.) just putting text as an annotation somewhere on the workflow or b.) branching and transposing the dataset to a new table with an added descriptions column.

Are there any best practices for this or better solutions that everyone is using.

ChatGPT suggest using a “Column Properties” node, but I could not find it/it does not seem to exist.

Thanks in advance.

Ink