Feature Request - Command Palette Entry to upload image

[mahadevan]

There is no way to attach an image other than "drag & drop" image onto Obsidian. A Ctrl+P, Command Palette entry would be awesome. Users can attach images directly from obsidian by Command or shortcut instead of dragging & dropping them into the note.

[gavvvr]

Hi @mahadevan

Thanks for sharing your idea about Command palette entry.

First I would like to correct you:

There is no way to attach an image other than "drag & drop" image onto Obsidian

That's not quite right. The primary way to paste an image is to press Cmd/Ctrl+V actually. In this case the source of image is obviously the current content of your clipboard. Drag'n'Drop is also supported as you mentioned.

Now, let's get back to your idea of having a palette command. What would be the source of image, when you trigger a palette command to upload at Imgur? I can imagine the situation that you might want to upload a current local image under your cursor with palette command to avoid touching the mouse, but the upload of local images (#7) is not yet implemented unfortunately. Let me know if this is what you meant. If I got you right, that's a good idea, I like the command what will free a user from using the mouse.

The most difficult part here will be to implement the upload of local image. I already have a POC in a upload-existing-image-POC branch. The upload is working, but I also want to implement removal of local image and replacement of an old link to a local image in the whole Vault with a just created Imgur link (that's the most difficult part for now, because it will require a significant amount of time from me. There is no public API for such a batch replacement and to find such code in private API you need to debug uglified JavaScript code)