<p>Automating image workflows can minimize the friction of
dealing with images. This is useful when you need to insert images or screenshots into your blog articles</p>

<h2 id="automate-uploading-images-to-the-cloud">Automate uploading images to the Cloud</h2>

<p>I use <a href="https://github.com/gee1k/uPic">uPic</a>.</p>

<blockquote>
  <p><strong><em>NOTE:</em></strong> This app is available in Mac OS X only.</p>
</blockquote>

<p>You can follow the
<a href="https://blog.svend.cc/upic/tutorials/github/">instructions</a> to
configure Github as the hosted service. There are other image hosted services too.</p>

<p>Add a shortcut for taking screenshots and auto uploading to the
service:</p>

<p><img alt="Shortcut for taking sceenshots and uploading images" src="https://i.loli.net/2021/11/09/OKtYbLASjcsRWE4.png" /></p>

<p>Now pressing <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">Cmd + F8</code> allows me to select the screen area to capture.</p>

<p><strong>When done capturing, it automatically uploads and add the image URL to the clipboard</strong>!</p>

<h2 id="insert-images-into-org-files-1">Insert images into Org files</h2>

<p>If you don't need to preview the images, the simple solution is just
yank (Ctrl + y) the URL into the org file.</p>

<p>However, if you need to convert Org files into other formats, e.g.,
Markdown, <a href="https://pandoc.org/">Pandoc</a> has some
<a href="https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/5454">quirks</a> about dealing with
image URLs.</p>

<p>To setup proper image links, we need to add at least #+CAPTION on top:</p>

<div class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge"><div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight"><code>#+CAPTION: label
[[/path/to/image]]
</code></pre></div></div>

<p>which leads to my <a href="https://github.com/joaotavora/yasnippet">snippet</a> to
<strong>automate creating image link from clipboard</strong>:</p>

<div class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge"><div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight"><code># -*- mode: snippet -*-
# name: Add image link (from clipboard)
# key: &lt;i
# --
#+CAPTION: ${1:Caption}
[[`(current-kill 0)`]]
</code></pre></div></div>

<h2 id="summary-my-workflow">Summary: My workflow</h2>

<ul>
  <li>Press <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">Cmd + F8</code> to take a screenshot and get the image URL in
clipboard</li>
  <li>Type <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">&lt;i</code> and TAB</li>
  <li>Enter a caption and TAB</li>
  <li>Press <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">C-c TAB</code> to toggle the image view</li>
</ul>