Images as links doesn't work per other post advice

What I’m trying to do

I am trying to designate an image as a link to a document in my vault. I have tried the method most commonly suggested in other forum advice, but it simply doesn’t work.

Things I have tried

I’ve been using the format:
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The result is that the first set of square brackets and everything outside are deprecated to normal text, while the image appears.
Hope someone out there has had this struggle before and found a solution.

Something like [ ![[image.jpg|300]] ](note.md) will only work in Reading view (not in Live preview). Could that be the issue?

source mode | reading view

CleanShot 2026-04-25 at 08.30.07

^ here I’m clicking on the image in reading view

Thanks so much. Got it in one; I hadn’t even though to check that. Much appreciated