Best Practices for Embedding Images/Files?
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Hi! I'm coming back to NV from an unfortunate detour to Notion (and IA Writer) for a while.
Do you have any best practices or recommendations embedding images in a NV Ultra .md doc, or file system? This answer is selfishly for me, but might have use beyond just me here in making it to helpdocs for future users.
IA Writer had a handy "hack" that essentially just populated the path to the image if dragged into the window, but it did not alter the image's location if i remember correctly.
Many of my documents involve studio settings for audio hardware and having my images inline was helpful in recalling settings.
Thank you.
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This may not be the answer you want but I just use Pages for documents where I might have embedded images.
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nvUltra will also insert image Markdown if you drag an image file into a note. I recommend keeping images in a subfolder of the notes root folder so that you can use a relative path, making it easy to move in the future.
And no, "use Pages" is not the recommended method here. Sorry Mitch :).
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Also, because nvUltra indexes non-Markdown files, images in the same folder or sub-folder of the current note will show up in the file list, can be searched and you can drag from the sidebar into a note.
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Sorry, Brett. I'll go slap myself on the wrist now. :)
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Thank you!
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I've found making a separate directory to contain images and the markdown text to be helpful in keeping everything together and allowing for short relative paths.
I think it would be great if pasting an image or dragging an image into the editor automatically copied it into the directory and inserted a markdown insert link.
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All you have to do is drag an image into the notes list if you want to add it to the folder, and you can drag any file to the editor to add a link.
I'm not sure it makes sense to combine those two steps, because they are inherently different things.
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Can you, please, introduce an option 'Keep images in folder ...' to automatically move the images, that were drag-n-dropped to notes list (or, possible, to note?) into specified folder (say, 'images')? Some filename management may be required to automatically rename images with the same names.
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Valery Kondakoff -- will consider, but not likely this will happen. (Don't want to promise something that I don't plan on delivering.)
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I commonly use nvultra to keep notes on presentations and often like to include a screenshot of a slide. It is pretty clumsy to make this work in nvultra currently - need to first move the screenshot to the right place and then find it again and drag it to the note to get a link.
The built-in preview doesn't show the image even in that case (it renders a link).
This is a lot of drag and drop and sorting when trying to be attentive to a presenter.
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What happens when you drag an image from the notes list to your file? What kind of image file is it?
Dragging images for me results in ``, which previews just fine.
You can drag images to the notes list to move them to your folder quickly.
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Dragging from the desktop and dragging from the notes list both create a `.png` link but only the preview from the link created after dragging to the notes list and then dragging from the notes list to the note itself preview.
I use the vertical layout (old habits :-)) - I don't drag much to the notes list as it is often filtered away. Maybe I'll try this workflow more, though.
Dragging from the desktop:
Copying to the notes list. And dragging form the notes list.
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That’s a separate issue. Only files inside the root folder are available to the preview due to app sandboxing.
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