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org-download
Emacs Lisp2015–2026
abo-abo / org-download

org-download

Drag and drop images to Emacs org-mode

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11Mentions
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Drag and drop images to Emacs org-mode

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Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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Observed mentions: 2015-12-03 16:55:25 UTC to 2026-01-11 09:01:03 UTC.

0123452015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20152016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 0 submissions, 5 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

* An incomplete calendar period is marked with an outlined bar. Its count is not directly comparable with a full period.

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC505
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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https://github.com/abo-abo/org-download is handy for images (org-mode shows images just fine). https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/copy-as-org-mode/ lets you copy formatted text from web pages to org-mode format pdf's – do you mean downloading them? I mean, emacs can view pdf's, your computer can store them as files, making a clickable link to ./sicp.pdf from org-mode is just [[./sicp.pdf]] (or, while you're reading the pdf or browsing it in dired, hit your key for org-store-link and then in org-mode hit the key for org-insert-link).
In Org Mode syntax is one of the most reasonable markup languages for text (2017)
Yes. If you use Org-mode or Markdown-mode in GUI Emacs, I believe this works by default in the development version (since “yank-media” was introduced). If you use other versions of Emacs, or just want more control over where the files go and how they are linked, you can use this package: https://github.com/abo-abo/org-download I don’t think the TUI supports drag-and-drop, but you can still copy-and-paste using org-download (bound to a separate keybinding). Unfortunately, last I checked the built-in yank-media function doesn’t work in the TUI, although I don’t see a technical reason why it couldn’t be implemented.
In Howm: Personal Wiki for Emacs
> Emacs was invented for a world where Text was everything. Given that you're still on a computer, what do you think isn't representable as text in one way or other? You can drag and drop images from a browser into Emacs[1], and it will download the image to a sensible (and configurable) location, add a link to the file and display it inline. > The other problem is speed of typing is irrelevant Yes, but having an interface which is reasonable and configurable is important for managing cognitive load, and Emacs excels here. [1] https://github.com/abo-abo/org-download
In Life is 90% of my use cases for org-mode
There are probably a few different ways out there. Here's link to another add-on method that allows for drag and dropping of images directly from a Firefox web page into Org, code handles async downloading of image to local directory: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/77708 EDIT: the above-linked thread is actually about the beginnings of the 'org-download' extension, now found here: https://github.com/abo-abo/org-download
In From Word to Markdown to InDesign: Fully Automated Typesetting Using Pandoc

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