guys, I have a problem. Is there any way to stop obsidian automatically generate the ! prefix when I paste an image from elsewhere? like just [[this_is_an_image]], instead of ![[this_is_an_image]].
It’s annoying to manually delete the ! prefix every time since I seldom need it.
As this is standard Markdown behaviour for images, I’m not sure if there’s a setting in Obsidian to turn it off.
I haven’t tried, but thinking that something like that can help you - GitHub - rekby/obsidian-paste-transform
You can change pasted text with the help of RegEx. I’m guessing you could make a rule to create a link without !.
Cheers, Marko 
Thanks sooooo much for reply.
I tried this plugin. Well, it works fine if you have plain text like ![[this_is_an_image]] in your clipboard. However, when it comes to images, it seems the clipboard only contains the image itself. The prefix ! and [[]] are generated by the editor somehow. Therefore, pasting an image can’t trigger the plugin.
However, your idea inspired me.
It occurred to me that Obsidian Easy Typing has a feature named customize convert rule feature.
Before Convert: r/!(\[\[[0-9_-]+\.\w+\]\])z/|
New Pattern: [[0]]
All you need is to paste the image and press a certain key (I choose z), the z will activate the easy typing plugin and execute this rule.
It’s not perfect, but it works with an acceptable overhead (imo).
BTW, I’m using Obsidian paste image rename which renames pasted image to format like 25-03-31_23-08-26.png
I feared something like that, but I’m happy you found another solution! Go to the Feature Request section of the forum and suggest it. Initially, I wondered why you wanted this, but then test it, and I saw “the feature” 
… so I think it is worth trying.
Cheers, Marko
Just to avoid confusion: Markdown says nothing about what should happen when you paste an image into an editor. (And the wiki link image embed format is inspired by Markdown’s image embed format but not a standard part of Markdown.)
Thanks for the suggestion!
I want this feature because I mainly use Obsidian for journaling.
My goal is to have a concise daily diary that can be shown in one single page. This allow me to review what happened without scrolling up and down. However, the space an image take makes it hard to accomplish.
For image viewing, I use the core plugin Page Preview via Cmd + hover.
Sadly, it seems only a few people have the same need. When searching for solutions, I found rare relevant results.
BTW, non-native English speaker here. Does “Cheers, Marko” have any special meaning? Just wonder 
Thank you for the clarification! I only know the basic syntax of markdown…
BTW, when I search for how to change the username of Obsidian forum, I found you help these guys.
So would it be possible to change my username from current to biscuitbicky? (If it’s not too much trouble…)
Before: pacman
New: biscuitbicky
Thanks in advance for your time and patience 
It’s just a greeting which uses a common (but to some a unknown) structure of “greeting” plus comma, ,, and who does the greeting. So I could say “Bye, holroy”, which looks a little strange, but it’s used by many people. Another version would be to do “Best regards, holroy” or “Wish your day has luck, full name”. All of these are sending a greeting towards you, and adds who sent it.
So doing “cheers, Marko” is just a way for Marko to send a smile or positive thought (in form of a cheer) towards you.
Oh, I haven’t paid attention to the “cheers” question - sorry! But it is better that someone who is native English replied as I’m also not a native speaker
OK, I’ve just checked it out and found out that @holroy is (probably) also not native - but I know that their English is better than at least mine 
So about my cheers, is it precisely as @holroy replied, and for “excuse” - have been working for almost 10 years for an England-based company with a lot of IT colleagues from England, and there it probably stayed in my fingers If I use it correctly, with comma and stuff - I do not know 
Just found this on Quora …
Cheers is a British expression. It’s short for “Cheerio”, which is an old-fashioned way of saying goodbye, and is believed to be a corruption of “Chair-ho”, which was how people in the 17th and 18th C hailed sedan chairs.
I guess I’ll start using now Cheerio 
Cheers is not evident as an emotionless salutation or closing. It has a positive and friendly tone. We’re not talking about archival usage of the word, but how it is used today. “Cheery” means “happy,” uplifting. A cheer is a positive response to an uplifting moment. When you lift glasses of spirits together you say “cheers” and wish each other for good times. So “Cheers” as a salutation or verbal sign-off has the same connotation…”here’s to happy, uplifting times ahead.”
Never read so much about my greeting
All the best, guys and … cheers, Marko (yes, I’m wearing glasses also in real life)
Username changed. Enjoy!