Awesome Image

A one-stop solution for image management together with Obsidian Image Toolkit's marvelous image view experience.

Design philosophy

• Always available. No internet? No problem. Your images live completely offline, internet or service issues will never be your problem.
• Center management. Images no more scatter around, which leads to outdated links and useless files.
• Just enough automation. Auto process pasted image, but let you know all that happened.

Features

• 💾 Command to copy images to a user-defined folder with a uniform name, and update links in your notes.
• 🔗 Auto download internet images.
• ⚡ Auto process image the second you paste it, whether it's from internet or is binary format.
• 🔎 Command to list all images that are not linked by your notes, which can be deleted manually.

How to use

IMPORTANT NOTE Since the plugin can modify your notes, please back up your vault for the first time, to ensure the plugin is acting the way you want.

The best way to use this plugin is toggle on On paste processing in settings and then run Awesome Image: Process images for all your notes once. After that, all your images will be in good hands.

You may also want to toggle OFF Use [[Wikilinks]] under Files & Links since only Markdown links is supported now.

Below are all commands it offers:

1. Press Ctrl+P (or Cmd+P on macOS) to open the Command palette.
2. Type the name (or partial name) of the command you want to run.
3. Navigate to the command using the arrow keys.
4. Press Enter.

The command names are:

1. Awesome Image: Process images for active file
2. Awesome Image: Process images for all your notes
3. Awesome Image: List images that are not linked by your notes

To see results of List images that are not linked by your notes, you may want to open Developer Tools by pressing Ctrl+Shift+I in Windows and Linux, or Cmd-Option-I on macOS.

How it works

When Process images:

1. Locate the image using regex in notes.
2. Get image from binary data or from internet(if it is an url), calc the SHA256 hash of the image.
3. Copy image file to user-defined folder, image file name is derived from SHA256 to avoid conflict.
4. Change the image path in note to direct to the new image file.
5. The old image will NOT be deleted for data security reasons, you can find them using the command below.

When List images: Compare image files and links in your notes, and display images that are not linked by your notes in Developer Tools console.

When Paste image: Acts just like Process images for pasted content but automated (ensure On paste processing is toggled on in settings).

Attribution

Special thanks to sissilab's marvelous Obsidian Image Toolkit, the plugin is based on this great work.