where are images in notes stored in Zotero 6?

hadifalex
Hi everyone,

This is potentially a very simple question and I apologise as I am still learning to use Zotero.

I often click and drag images into my Zotero notes, sometimes they are variants of figure that already exist in an article but I tend to add more details or rearrange them in some fashion.

I have also recently started looking into Obsidian and how to export those notes in .md format and although every Zotero-related link works beautifully, images that I have either attached or click and dragged into my notes are nowhere to be found.

Would you be able to help with how to accommodate that? I am not sure where images are stored when dragged and even if I attach an image directly to a file it is still not 'visible' to the markdown export.

Many thanks!

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  • dstillman Zotero Team
    edited March 23, 2022
    They're stored on disk within the Zotero data directory.

    They're not currently included in Markdown export, because it's not straightforward how it should be done — including the image from the file path on disk wouldn't work on another computer, and encoding as a data URI in the Markdown would result in a massive file that would only work if a given editor supported rendering those. But we'll likely offer some sort of option eventually.
  • hadifalex
    @dstillman Ah, that makes a bit more sense.
    I guess it won't be the end of the world if i also had a separate folder where those images are stored. :)

    Many thanks for the clarification!

  • Bebetter
    @dstillman Maybe we can specify a folder to store pictures, specify citekey+page+tags as the file name to keep uri short and readable, and maintain the same file structure to ensure the readability of markdown files on different computers.
  • hadifalex
    @Bebetter @dstillman

    That would be a nice way to implement it but not sure how feasible it can be! :D
  • erazlogo
    Obsidian Zotero Desktop connector has a setup to export images cropped from PDFs via "select area" in regular PDF readers into Obsidian. It may be useful to create a version of that setup in Zotero.
    https://github.com/mgmeyers/obsidian-zotero-desktop-connector
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