ahmedelq
[BUG] Can't paste images to Notion
I don't know if it's faulty on Notion's end or your extension but unlike the description you left in r/Notion 2 years ago, I can't paste the image generated with the note into Notion. Seems like there's some sort of a limit when pasting to Notion, maybe the size?
How to reproduce: Make a not and take screenshots using Alt + Shift + P. Try to copy paste generated not into Notion and only see text/timestamp getting pasted.
I think I found a hack but its very clunky.
When I convert the HTML to markdown and copy-paste to Notion, it then shows the image.
To do that, I changed Note Template to:
<p>- [(%TS_FORMATTED%)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=(%VID_ID%)&t=(%TS_RAW%)s)(%NOTE%)</p>(%SCREENSHOT_FORMATTED%)
but Screenshot Template should stay as
<img src="(%SCREENSHOT_SRC%)"/>
Because if I don't wrap it with <img> tag, %SCREENSHOT_SRC% will show raw Base64 source that is very long.
Then I paste the result where I can see raw HTML in the clipboard like here
<p>- [03:04](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNk_zzaMoSs&t=184.397705s)dsfjlksdf;j</p>
<p><img src="https://ckeditor.com/apps/ckfinder/userfiles/files/image-20240213232029-4.png" style="height:1080px; width:1920px" /></p>
Then I extract src= address from this and make it like:
... then I copy-paste them into Notion and then eventually notion pastes the image.
So, here's my suggestion:
Make an option to copy below result in markdown format like this. If you can fetch img src address and paste that address in markdown format, then I can copy the Natty Note result and paste it into Notion without any issue.
- add
Notion seems to check if the text I'm pasting is markdown or not. So when you paste:
[**Vectors | Chapter 1, Essence of linear algebra**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUvTyaaNkzM&list=PLZHQObOWTQDMsr9K-rj53DwVRMYO3t5Yr) 3Blue1Brown
This will be pasted in Notion but
This will not.
When a screenshot it taken it is stored embedded (inline) into the content. Its data is encoded in base64 with Data URL such as this one <img src="data:image/jpeg;base64,/9j/4AAQSkZJRgA......."/> . Some platforms such as notion can't handle this encoding for pasted contents. Try it with Google Docs and it will work!
To solve this issue, we'll probably need to do some integration with a 3rd party image hosting platform such as imgur.
