Suggestion: linking instead of embedding screenshots

[Joschl3000]

I am copying my natty notes to obsidian/md. I think right now if a sceenshot is taken with shift option p the screenshot is embedded in the video comment text as a datastream, at least when copying to a different editor.
Obsidian becomes sluggish and crashes sometimes because of this.
Is it possible to not embed screenshots, but to link to the screenshots which are stored somewhere else (user specified directory?)

thank you for your work, I enjoy using the plugin a lot!

[ahmedelq]

Hi, thanks for the issue!
I'm well aware about this setback, there have been numerous requests to obsidian to fix this ( [1] [2] ).
IMHO It's not a good practice to store the images directly on the host's device.

One way to tackle it would probably be to use an obsidian plug-in to automatically store datastream-based images. I've had a great success with obsidian-local-images-plus.

[navaneethnpk]

Hi. I was searching for a solution for taking notes from youtube and ended up here. The extension is great!
While testing it, I also faced the lag issue when copying notes into apps like Notion, Obsidian, Logseq. The issue is coming when there is image present in the notes.

[ahmedelq]

Hi @navaneethnpk,
Thanks for the feedback!

I have thought long about this issue! It cannot be solved unless we use an online image service to upload the images to.
The base64 image can be huge, yes. Leading to performance issues when pasting, however, I noticed that Google docs seem to handle the copy-paste perfectly. For obsidian as I mentioned above, using obsidian-local-images-plus solves the problem for me.

To solve this issue, I'm gonna need to upload the images (probably to imgur.com or a similar service) instead of base64 encoding them.