Obsidian Attachment Management Notes

What to Manage?

In theory, all file formats can be managed (including those Obsidian itself cannot open).
For example: eBooks, lecture slides, Excel, Word

For instance, building an index page with attachment syntax inside, or simply giving a name and directly using the launcher for global search

  • You can create index pages for course slides and course reference books

How to Manage

Use relative paths in link syntax

Otherwise, the links will break after moving the files

- Hard to find images? Consider putting them into a container and granting them “citizenship”

  • Put images into Excalidraw, then they become “first-class citizens” supporting various retrieval methods
    • Global search, tags, metadata, ontology, backlinks

Image Management Tools

Path Management

  • There should be a solution so that when the md file is moved, the embedded images move together
    • There may be some issues with “one image used in multiple places,” but for now, my images mostly remain as attachments to md files. And the final path of the images usually won't be too far off.
    • Otherwise, files and attachments may become separated in the directory structure, making export, sharing, and deletion inconvenient.

Name Management

  • If images are automatically renamed when pasted, this plugin is unnecessary
    Let the image names inside the container be renamed together with EXD. Automatically generate SVG/PNG substitutes for EXD to prevent places embedding this EXD from failing to export.

Image Hosting