Avoiding "data:image/png;base64..." when pasting from OneNote

[ballison]

Hey, all–

I’m migrating from Mac OneNote and when I copy/paste content that includes an image, I get a whole lot of this:

It works in the preview but the edit view is a mess and it’s hard to make revisions.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks!

Things I have tried

Copy/pasting an individual image from OneNote
Copy/pasting a selected section from OneNote
Copy/pasting an entire frame (text box area) from OneNote

For reference, copy/pasting individual pictures from other applications (such as Snaggit) creates a “normal” format and adds the file to the attachments directory. The issue I’m experiencing seems specific to OneNote.

What I’m trying to do

Insert the picture with a shorter format in the edit view.

[haosmark]

I’m in the same boat as you, migrating from OneNote. My hacky solution around this is to take snapshots of the images, then paste them in to obsidian. I use ksnip to save selected regions directly to clipboard.

[jwl]

Move the image to a location inside your vault and recreate the link with Obsidian.

[ballison]

Hah! This is what I’ve been doing too except with Snagit.

[ballison]

I do not believe there is a directory listing images within OneNote so this approach would require saving every image in every note to folder before dragging them in one by one in between text, pasted piecemeal. I did try this for about an hour but it was torture. I am specifically looking for a way to paste.