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Automating Image Sync to Cloudflare R2 with PicGo

Why?

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

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

Molunerfinn/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).

Result

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!