Many of you probably know Joplin (the FOSS Markdown note-taking app)…
Just want to mention that Joplin has recently released an update on Android that brings a killer feature.
You can now draw within Joplin. This adds images to your markdown document and you can edit them later.
I have waited a long time for this and am happy, it’s finally there.
Now, I can get rid of “Samsung Notes”.
(You can draw by clicking the 3 dots at the top right and choosing “Draw picture”. To edit an existing one, just click once on it and press the pencil icon)
Where is the image hosted? Lemm.ee doesn’t let you host much if anything.
You can use https://catbox.moe
I’m a little wary of catbox.moe, when I first saw it the images would never load in lemmy - you’d always have to go to their website. That doesn’t seem to be the case now (also the link generated appears to be a direct link to the file) but yeah, I’m still wary.
https://imgchest.com/ is also a good place to upload it.
feddit.de
https://feddit.de/pictrs/image/2f8abfd8-9697-48e8-87f3-3a7f206a98a1.jpeg?format=webp
That doesn’t quite answer my question, presumably Joplin is hosting the image on the user’s instance - you’re in feddit.de, so it uploads to feddit.de. Not all instances keep this functionality open.
For example, if I try and upload your image (either the 32kB webp or the 60kB jpeg) using the lemm.ee website, I get the error:
I’m pretty sure lemm.ee does this to avoid having illegal images hosted on their servers - it used to allow files up to 100kB. But this means the functionality in Joplin is useless to me, it simply won’t work, not unless I manually upload it elsewhere. In which case, I could use any other app to scribble an image out and then upload it.
Meanwhile, the old reddit app I used to use (Relay) would upload to imgur, all seemlessly in the background, then paste the link code in my comment. This kind of functionality is what I would like to see.
I’m generally against hosting files on instances, anyway. It creates extra server load.
It seems like you misunderstand what Joplin is? Or I misunderstand what you are saying… I don’t know…
Joplin is a note taking app that fully works on markdown. You can use it on your local PC, but you can also synchronize the notes over devices.
Joplin and Lemmy have nothing to do with each other. I have just taken a screenshot of the rendered markdown document in my Joplin app, switched to my web browser, opened feddit.de and posted the screenshot in this community.
If you want to say that using Joplin just to draw and post pictures somewhere, would be a bad idea… Yes, that’s right. But it’s primarily a note-taking app, so that’d be expected… And usually, the notes are private and nothing you want to regularly post online…
Well, Lemmy is a decentralized system. Hosting all image resources on a centralized service (imgur) is probably not what the majority wants…
Yeah I’ve realised that now hah. I thought it was a lemmy client. Complete brain fart on my part, sorry.
I’m not talking about the majority, though, I’m talking about an app picking a 3rd party image host rather than relying on the user’s instance. Ideally such a lemmy client could have options on where to host things, if the developer was willing to cater to multiple APIs.
Joplin has nothing to do with Lemmy. I think they were answering about where Lemmy stores the image they posted. But Joplin would presumably store your drawings alongside the other assets associated with your notes, in its own local storage and whichever sync storage you have configured for it.
Oh I see, my bad, I thought Joplin was a lemmy client hah.
I still wish there was a lemmy client that would upload to a specific 3rd party hosting site, rather than using the lemmy instance’s internal hosting.