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Things I have tried

I am brand new to Obsidian and loving it! I am using Nick’s LYT theme on my iPad Pro. When I click on ‘image’ in the bottom toolbar, I can easily choose an image from my photo library. However, in the note it just gives me a link address to follow. When I do that, I see the image in a separate file. I select ‘merge this image with note’ but nothing happens. What am I doing wrong? Thanks.

What I’m trying to do

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Not using on my ipad but using on my windows computer… is there a way that you can drag and drop the image? How I add images that are inside my document is to copy and paste. Hope this helps - let us know if you figure it out please! :pencil2: :spiral_notepad:

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The link you see just needs an exclamation mark in front of it to become an embed, like this:
![[Some image]]

The same trick can be used to embed notes instead of linking to them, too.

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Thank you so much to both respondents. Ryan, that added exclamation mark did the trick. Perfect!

One final question now about best practice. There’s still a separate image file headed with a long number.jpg. When I hit ‘merge’ as I mentioned in my initial post, the image file is still not deleting so I’m wondering if it’s best practice to keep a separate folder of all images? And, if it is, should it be relabeled with a meaningful name or will that break the link to the embedded image? Should it be linked or tagged to notes? Thank you again.

#5

Yeah, the image file still needs to live somewhere. Obsidian’s plain text files differ from e.g., Word .docx files—they literally can’t contain other media, only text.

I rarely use images, so I’m probably not qualified to comment on best practice. I think you’ll find folks have varying opinions on this, though, so “do what currently feels right” is probably the right advice.

For what it’s worth, I do like naming files of all kinds. It might not matter in the moment, but it’ll matter after several months have passed and you’re looking for it again. So, I name everything as descriptively and search-friendly as possible.

If you rename a file that has been linked in the Obsidian app, Obsidian will fix the links you’ve added to your notes for you. However, if you rename a file outside the Obsidian app (e.g., in Finder/File Explorer), you will need to make sure to correct the links yourself.

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