Obsidian users struggle to keep image-heavy vaults small
Obsidian users with image-heavy notes want to store attachments outside their vault so the vault stays manageable and is less likely to exceed sync limits. The evidence shows a workaround using Google Drive and a script that scans notes for images and creates links, but users still want a smoother upload-and-link workflow. One signal asks about image maps, a related Obsidian image issue but outside this brief's scope.
For obsidian users with image-heavy vaults. Mentioned from Dec 2023 to Oct 2025 on product forums and GitHub.
4 different people described this problem in 2 separate discussions.
- Indie fit
- 5.0/10
- Pain
- 5.5/10
- Frequency
- 5.8/10
- Willingness to pay
- 0.0/10
- Momentum
- 5.0/10
- Who pays
- Consumers
- Competition
- Medium
- Build difficulty
- Medium
What people said
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The perfect solution would be to use an external Google Drive Synced folder to store images instead of storing in a vault
my notes, which I store on a local drive, are synchronized with google drive. For Google Drive, a google script works, which looks through my notes and if it finds a picture in them, it creates a link to it
Build brief
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- Current workarounds, existing solutions and risks