On Sat, Feb 18, 2023 at 04:22:33PM -0800, Alexis Gallagher wrote: > Hello, my fellow org-mode lovers, > > This is a feature request — or failing that, a request for advice on > a settings configuration which could produce this functionality now.
Have you looked at org-attach-screenshot? https://github.com/dfeich/org-screenshot It uses org-attach and calls out to take a screenshot. I do the same with some local function's I wrote a while ago. It works very well for me. I run M-x my/org-screenshot, and after 3 seconds it will use Imagemagick's "import" command to allow me to select a region to screenshot and saves it to a filename I prepared. I do this daily, many times each day. > I wish org-mode had the ability to attach images to notes, display > them inline, and have that work well. By “work well” I mean a few > specific things: > > • the image is automatically resized to maintain aspect ratio and > • fit horizontally with a civilized margin, so that I can resize > • my emacs window without the image disappearing or swamping the > • other content. This is Emacs, not Org. Perhaps someone knows how to adjust that. > • you can still scroll the window one line height unit at a time, > • without the entire image being scrolled as if it were one giant > • line, breaking scrolling, as seems to happen on my emacs > • (version 28.x on Linux) Mine jumps too, but again that's Emacs, not Org. > • drag and drop, so I can add the image by dragging it in, for > • instance from a screenshot tool or from an image on a web page. I can't answer that. Drag and drop functions depend on your platform. Does anything else in Emacs use drag and drop? > • sensible defaults for storing the images bundled with notes and > • keeping the two associated, so that I don't subsequently live in > • fear of ever moving my org files I do save all of mine to the same directory as my org file in .org/Filename.org.screenshotYYYYMMDDHHMMSS.png. It means I can easily know what files below to my org document. > Why is this valuable, to me at least? I use org to take notes all > day, during meetings, on reading matter, in the development of my > own thoughts. Embedding images would let me collect every kind of > resource I can't reproduce by typing or copy and pasting text — > photos of slides during presentations, photos of whiteboard, key > snippets from websites, handwritten notes and equations, etc.. Of course it's valuable, and already implemented. I think you're asking more about refining how you use it. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Russell Adams rlad...@adamsinfoserv.com https://www.adamsinfoserv.com/