Thank you for the inline image pasting!

[Craig_Oliver]

Hey Dynalist team!

I just wanted to say “thank you” for a new feature I noticed this morning. I pasted an image into my outline, and I noticed that rather than uploading the image into the cloud storage, it instead pasted it as an inline data element, e.g. ![](data:image/png;base64,...) .

Thank you for making this change! It’s so convenient to have the images stored right along with the text of the outline; it’s easier to copy, export, share, etc.

Keep up the great work!

Craig

[Louis_Kirsch]

I’m not sure that is a feature, it is questionable how that will affect performance.

How many of these have you pasted in your document?

[Craig_Oliver]

I’ve only pasted one or two, and they were relatively small PNG files.

I think I see your point; I suppose large attachments would not be appropriate to inline like this. But for small images like these I’m very happy to see this change.

[Stephen_Dewitt]

I can’t get this to work … always uploads to cloud with all the different methods I can think of - any idea how to replicate what you’re getting? Do you get it if you (1) drag files and (2) if you e.g. print screen then ctrl+v ?

[Craig_Oliver]

Hmm, trying to replicate this behavior was trickier than I thought. It seems like it works like this:

• If the image source is a file, Dynalist will upload the file and paste an image link to the cloud storage.
• If the image source is a URL, Dyalist will paste an image link to the URL.
• If the image is only in-memory, Dynalist will paste a data link like I described above.

Here’s how I can replicate it on my Windows 10 machine:

1. Open a page in your browser that generates an image not backed by a URL. For example, at the time of this post, this JSFiddle will generate a red block in the lower right corner of the page: https://jsfiddle.net/xameeramir/p1twjL7k/

2. Right-click the image and choose “Copy image”

3. Paste the image into Dynalist. It creates a data link like the one I described above.

So maybe this isn’t a new feature after all, but one that I just discovered because I was working with some generated images over the weekend. Either way it’s good to know how it works.

[Louis_Kirsch]

Maybe my bug report concerning this topic is of interest.

Pasting image from clipboard no longer uploads

Steps to reproduce Starting from scratch, what are the steps to make the bug happen? The fewer the steps, the better. Copy image to clipboard in chrome, paste into dynalist, uses URL instead of uploading the image Expected result What do you expect to see after carrying out the steps above? Image being uploaded to dynalist and then inserted Actual result Instead of the expected result, what happened? Links to the image directly Environment Which operating system are you using? Which browse…

[Craig_Oliver]

Thanks Louis. It sounds like sometimes one person’s bug is another person’s feature!

Having read your bug report, I agree that standardizing the upload behavior makes sense. Perhaps it could be made into an option.

Either way, I’m glad to know that I can convert images to a data URI before I paste them into the outline, and get the behavior I want.

[Erica]

@Shida: did we intentionally make such a change?

[Shida]

I don’t believe so. It could be caused by a recent browser spec change?