[Feature Request] Highlighter Tool (a basic image editing tool)

[DryIce1]

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Hello,

I love this plugin - thanks so much!

I can imagine that this might be beyond the scope of your plugin, however as an idea, some basic image editing features would make it incredibly streamlined for note-reviewing and flashcard making purposes.

My current use / workflow whilst watching a lecture for example is;

• I take a screenshot of an interesting idea, and paste it into my notes
• often I need to open the image and highlight a specific part
  • I use the follow link under cursor hotkey (my set up is alt + Enter
  • open file in default app ctrl + shift + O which is Greenshot for png files.
  • Make highlights, save.
• Back in Obsidian, I might edit the image file name so that the image is searchable and can be linked to again from different places in the future

The app I use for making highlights/basic image edits is Greenshot app - because it has very simple highlighter tool that I mapped to a hotkey H - here is how I might highlight an image

• other editing tools I might use (e.g. arrow, text, rectangle tool) are not a priority for me, although I do occasionally use them.

I love this technique because concepts that I want to be familiar with (guidelines, policies, concepts etc) have been personalised them with my own colours and ideas - so when I come back to this source image, I am familiar with the coloured highlights and personal edits - a spatial memory trigger similar to as if they were my scribblings and ideas annotating an image in a physical personal notebook.

I hope that makes sense, and thanks again.

[sissilab]

Hello,

I love this plugin - thanks so much!

I can imagine that this might be beyond the scope of your plugin, however as an idea, some basic image editing features would make it incredibly streamlined for note-reviewing and flashcard making purposes.

Thanks for your FR. And I had thought about it.

My original idea is that: When you click and preview an image on the popup layer, you can click a button called 'Edit Mode'. And then, you can edit the image, such as highlighting a line, adding a rectangle with any color, adding text, etc. When finishing edit, you can paste the image to the clipboard and copy to your Obsidan.

You can find this image editing feature in many screenshot tools, such as Greenshot, Snipaste, PicPick, LightShot, and so on. Maybe you could use these kinds of tools for now. I will work on it if people wants this feature.

[DryIce1]

When you click and preview an image on the popup layer, you can click a button called 'Edit Mode'.

Yes, thanks for your reply @sissilab, and I agree with you.

Expected Function From the image pop-up layer, open the current image using the command "Open in default app" by two possible methods

1. by clicking an Edit Image button in the toolkit ribbon at the bottom of the screen to "Open Image in Default App / Edit Image".
2. by using the hotkey "Open in default app" (for me, I have it mapped to Ctrl + Shift + O

Currently when I try method 2., the parent markdown file which links to the image opens as a text document.

• I wonder if it is possible to point the "Open in default app" command to the image in the pop-up layer?
• I don't frequently use the separate command Open in default app: Show system explorer, but it is occasionally useful too.

Best, T