Embedding images / PDFs / link previews

Writing isn't only words — character concept art, maps, reference PDFs are common in notes. Slima supports four embed types.

1 · Images

The simplest. Three ways to insert:

Method	How
Drag	Drop image from your file manager into the editor
Toolbar	Image icon → upload
Markdown	Type  directly

Formats: jpg / png / gif. Limit 10 MB / image.

Alt text

• Alt text: required — the AI Coach uses it when "seeing" the image

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2 · PDFs

![](path/to/file.pdf) or drag.

How they show:

• Embedded viewer (prev / next page + zoom)
• Pages render as images, so text can't be selected or annotated
• Text content is read by the AI Coach (text PDFs, not scanned)

Limit 10 MB / file. (The 50 MB limit applies only to the separate path that imports a PDF by converting it to plain text.)

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3 · Link previews

Type an external link [title](https://...), hover and Slima auto-fetches the Open Graph preview (thumbnail + title + description).

Great for citing online sources:

Reference: [Lighthouse keepers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lighthouse_keeper)

Previews are cached — even offline you'll see the last fetched preview.

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4 · Internal links

Slima has no [[ ]] wikilink syntax — its approach is more automatic: type a character, location (or other entity) name right in the text and Slima gives it a dotted underline once detected.

• Ctrl / Cmd-click → jump to that entity's file
• Rename the entity and detection keeps up

See: Entity tracking and detail

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Where to put media

Inside Notes:

Notes
├── Characters
│   ├── Protagonist.md
│   └── Protagonist.jpg
├── Maps
│   └── Lighthouse location.png
└── Reference PDFs
    └── Marine ecology survey.pdf

Co-located with the text file → easy to find.

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What happens on export

• Export to EPUB / DOCX → images included
• Export to Markdown → images as base64 or external links
• Export to .slima backup → originals preserved

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Related

• File tree overview
• Relationship Map
• Import & export