Re: feature request: easy embedding of images

[Russell Adams <RLAdams@adamsinfoserv.com>]

On Sat, Feb 18, 2023 at 04:22:33PM -0800, Alexis Gallagher wrote:
> Hello, my fellow org-mode lovers,
>
> This is a feature request — or failing that, a request for advice on
> a settings configuration which could produce this functionality now.

Have you looked at org-attach-screenshot?

https://github.com/dfeich/org-screenshot

It uses org-attach and calls out to take a screenshot.

I do the same with some local function's I wrote a while ago. It works
very well for me. I run M-x my/org-screenshot, and after 3 seconds it
will use Imagemagick's "import" command to allow me to select a region
to screenshot and saves it to a filename I prepared.

I do this daily, many times each day.

> I wish org-mode had the ability to attach images to notes, display
> them inline, and have that work well. By “work well” I mean a few
> specific things:
>
> 	•	the image is automatically resized to maintain aspect ratio and
> 	•	fit horizontally with a civilized margin, so that I can resize
> 	•	my emacs window without the image disappearing or swamping the
> 	•	other content.

This is Emacs, not Org. Perhaps someone knows how to adjust that.

> 	•	you can still scroll the window one line height unit at a time,
> 	•	without the entire image being scrolled as if it were one giant
> 	•	line, breaking scrolling, as seems to happen on my emacs
> 	•	(version 28.x on Linux)

Mine jumps too, but again that's Emacs, not Org.

> 	•	drag and drop, so I can add the image by dragging it in, for
> 	•	instance from a screenshot tool or from an image on a web page.

I can't answer that. Drag and drop functions depend on your
platform. Does anything else in Emacs use drag and drop?

> 	•	sensible defaults for storing the images bundled with notes and
> 	•	keeping the two associated, so that I don't subsequently live in
> 	•	fear of ever moving my org files

I do save all of mine to the same directory as my org file in
.org/Filename.org.screenshotYYYYMMDDHHMMSS.png. It means I can easily
know what files below to my org document.

> Why is this valuable, to me at least? I use org to take notes all
> day, during meetings, on reading matter, in the development of my
> own thoughts. Embedding images would let me collect every kind of
> resource I can't reproduce by typing or copy and pasting text —
> photos of slides during presentations, photos of whiteboard, key
> snippets from websites, handwritten notes and equations, etc..

Of course it's valuable, and already implemented. I think you're
asking more about refining how you use it.

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