Attachments & audio

Images and files

Pasting an image (or a file from the OS file manager) copies it into the vault's attachments folder and inserts an ![[embed]] — plain markdown, readable from Obsidian. See Obsidian compatibility for how the attachments folder is resolved.

Unreferenced attachments can be cleaned up from Settings → Backup → Clean orphan attachments, with a preview before anything is deleted.

Audio recordings

Record audio directly into a note (microphone): the recording is saved into the attachments folder as record-<date>.webm and inserted as an embed:

![[record-2026-07-28.webm|Meeting audio - 2026-07-28]]

• Inline player — audio embeds (.webm, .mp3, .wav, .m4a, .ogg, .flac) render as a native audio player with their label.
• A missing file renders as a dimmed "not found" chip instead of an error.

Transcription

Each audio player has a 🎙️ Transcribe audio button. Transcription runs in the background and inserts the transcript/summary on a fresh line right below the embed.

• If your selected LLM can't transcribe (e.g. a local Ollama setup without an OpenAI key), Znote falls back to its own transcription service; the summary still uses your selected provider.
• If the summary LLM is unreachable, the raw transcript is inserted rather than losing the transcription.

Legacy recordings

Old [label](play://file.webm) links from previous Znote versions migrate on click: the file moves to the attachments folder and the links are rewritten as embeds.