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Drag and drop images to Emacs org-mode
11 mentions on Hacker News by 11 people: 0 stories, 11 comments · first 2015-12-03 · latest 2026-01-11
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https://github.com/abo-abo/org-download is handy for images (org-mode shows images just fine). https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/copy-as-org-mode/ lets you copy formatted text from web pages to org-mode format pdf's – do you mean…
comment by internet_points · 2026-01-11 · in Org Mode syntax is one of the most reasonable markup languages for text (2017) -
I use org-download ( https://github.com/abo-abo/org-download ) for pasting images.
comment by v9v · 2025-07-23 · in Org tutorials -
…just want more control over where the files go and how they are linked, you can use this package: https://github.com/abo-abo/org-download I don’t think the TUI supports drag-and-drop, but you can still copy-and-paste using org-download…
comment by setopt · 2024-09-04 · in Howm: Personal Wiki for Emacs -
https://github.com/abo-abo/org-download This is the package you're looking for. Just drag and drop images into the org mode buffer and you're done. I've been using it for years to take lecture / book notes in org mode where I have to…
comment by codemonkey-zeta · 2022-06-17 · in Cool desktops don’t change -
Yes, with the org-download module ( https://github.com/abo-abo/org-download ). I have some additional configuration to paste a screenshot (asking for a filename) using a keybinding. Here is my config: https://github.com/zzamboni/dot-doom/bl…
comment by zzamboni · 2020-09-14 · in Org-mode 9.4 is out. Can you help? -
There are plenty of ways to do it - https://github.com/abo-abo/org-download
comment by WhatIsDukkha · 2020-09-14 · in Org-mode 9.4 is out. Can you help? -
Here's an easy way to add images https://github.com/abo-abo/org-download
comment by jbd0 · 2020-07-21 · in Tired of note-taking apps -
…is reasonable and configurable is important for managing cognitive load, and Emacs excels here. [1] https://github.com/abo-abo/org-download
comment by _emacsomancer_ · 2020-06-30 · in Life is 90% of my use cases for org-mode -
…note/bookmarking needs, I added abo-abo's org-download in case the page has an interesting image: https://github.com/abo-abo/org-download
comment by madballster · 2020-05-19 · in WorldBrain's Memex: Bookmarking for the power users of the web -
https://github.com/abo-abo/org-download does "Drag and drop images to Emacs org-mode". I suppose you could use https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsImageManipulation =P There's also https://github.com/alphapapa/org-web-tools/ for web…
comment by unhammer · 2018-10-01 · in Tiddlywiki – A non-linear personal web notebook -
…thread is actually about the beginnings of the 'org-download' extension, now found here: https://github.com/abo-abo/org-download
comment by hsitz · 2015-12-03 · in From Word to Markdown to InDesign: Fully Automated Typesetting Using Pandoc