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*really really bloody good. i would more broadly say knowledge base? I have yet to find a tool that has so little friction in storing/retrieving (Text+img based) ideas + Interoperability + Speed

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Do you have a good way of storing and organizing images (and other media) in Obsidian? It's the one aspect where I've found its functionality wanting.

I thought you can just embed images and other media [1]. They have to be stored in the attachments folder [2].

[1] https://help.obsidian.md/Linking+notes+and+files/Embed+files

[2] https://help.obsidian.md/Contributing+to+Obsidian/Style+guid...

iiuc, it's both. drag / paste an image into obsidian it will automatically be stored in your attachments folder (regardless of what note you're in) and a preview is placed in the note itself

That's not really my experience. It depends on your browser and configuration on how well this works. Firefox for example does not work, but chrome does. With Firefox it instead creates a broken <a>-link with nested <img>.

I am surprised to hear this, as the Obsidian functionality is the only out-of-box offering I find acceptable in a corporate environment. Other alternatives like notion, logseq, joplin all break my workflow in spite of their selling points, because they do not simply store or reference a file. Obsidian is easy for me because I simply drag and drop something like a pdf or recording, and even if it is not a readable file within the Obsidian view, a file copy is dumped to the attachments folder without altering any of the metadata and a simple path reference is inserted in the fancy-markdown document. You can configure different workspaces/settings to dump to different folders if needed, but I treat mine mostly as a dumping ground that I manage similar to a bucket. If I need to audit images I can simply look at the folder with another program.

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