Why?

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I am a fan of logseq (glad if you are too), I love its local-first philosophy. Data lives on my machine, safe and private.

However, the biggest friction is when pasting images or videos. By default, logseq saves media files as-is: pasting url, it shows url; pasting local file, it saves local file path.

Issues:

• Local image path is not cloud-wise friendly. It breaks if I try to publish to internet.
• I should not paste images directly into the Git repo. Bloats the repo size.

Desire:

• There should be a better way to upload images in a single action. Something like “paste image, upload to cloud, get url, insert url”.

Solution

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And my solution for now is to upload images to Cloudflare R2 the moment they are pasted, via PicGo.

The desired workflow is:

1. Have the image inside clipboard.
2. Automatically call PicGo by CMD + Shift + P to upload the image to Cloudflare R2.
3. PicGo uploads the image, returns the URL.
4. I have the URL and paste into logseq (or other sites).

Demo:

Pre-requisites

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Implementation

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Result

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This setup keeps my logseq repository lightweight (text only) and makes sharing notes significantly easier since the assets are already online.

I hope this tip improves your note-taking workflow. Happy writing!