You’re right. A compound of two things at my end.
Thanks for flagging that up.
That is a important topic to notice.
I am not sure how the sync will affect the feature.
I hope that the open command with the file manager will solve that issue.
At least with not opening a file that is not synced.
Thanks, this was very helpful, but … I couldn’t really figure out how to get the image-worthy preview out of Drafts so … too bad. :-). Thank you, tho!
Here, here! I think the beauty of Drafts is that it is solely for text & it helps you to move your text where you want it to go. It was never meant to be a full fledged rich text word processor & that’s a good thing. There are other apps for that & Drafts makes it easy to get your text into them. 
everyone who needs images might be interested in asciidoctors aproach.
Asciidoctor or asciidoctor is a markdown like approach with superpowers.
Though it might be a bit more complex.
With a custom syntax highlighting it even might be useable in Drafts someday.
I’ve recently had cause to experiment with these workflows. I was particularly interested in the Dropbox route, but couldn’t get Dropbox URLs to show images. In case it helps anyone else: I did a little digging, and it seems that changing ?dl=1 to ?raw=1 at the end of a Dropbox share link solves the issue.
iPhone->photos->share image->copy iCloud link-> paste in Drafts
Don’t those iCloud share links expire after 30 days? Or has that changed in iOS 15?
Simply pasting shows nothing in preview.
Using:
! [image] (iCloud link)
shows the blue/white thumbnail ?.
Something i miss here i guess.
Is “iClloud Link” an actual link to the image file itself? The links iCloud generates for files usually are not to the file itself, but to a landing page that users can view an image.
I checked with 2 files, both in iOS. One file via the Files and the “Copy Link” option of share menu and the other via the Photos with the same menu method and the “Copy Icloud Link”.
When i upload to dropbox and paste link all is fine.
This is why i got curious to try @Ryan_Behrman post.
Have a shortcut that
Gets url info
takes a screenshot,
Uploads to Dropbox shared folder
Converts link to shareable
Builds a link to original page
Includes link to screenshot
Opens new page in drafts
Below is example
[Adding images/image links - General Discussion - Drafts Community](https://forums.getdrafts.com/t/adding-images-image-links/517/13)
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<!--- 20240614073803 --->
![bvj1][]
[bvj1]: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/scl/fi/bvj1u8ral6zz1vvxoi7oy/Adding-images-image-links-General-Discussion-Drafts-Community-https-forums.getdrafts.com-t-adding-images-image-links-517-13.jpeg?rlkey=b0asapgvfrh6w73aky5eatfmy&raw=0
If you are not averse to having your images hosted on-line then markdown links should be fine. Imgur or Postimages are free and generate links to images.
In Drafts you need to view the Preview to see the image.
hi @dennis_hay !
would you mind sharing the shortcut you created (as a shortcut file as opposed to the image)?
much appreciated!
z
Had the ‘need to sign into iCloud’ error, turned shortcuts sync off then back on, was a conflict
https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/4dd030053d6340a79ccf05f7a180f571
This is a work in progress, am working on the markdown/html in script. It’s pretty basic and isn’t very obvious what topic is … also find that dropbox link works once then iOS kills it … public post sounds better for images as mentioned above
thx! appriciated 
Z
