📸 Using images in your notes

Saving images in our notes holds very different use cases than something like a photo album or even Google Photos.

In this email, we will cover some use cases for saving images in your notes as well as show you some tricks and new features that you may not know about.

🌁 Why save images in your notes?

• Instantly save photos of handwritten notes

• Save things you find in the physical world

• Add media to things like travel logs

• Screenshots

• Remember things (e.g. where you leave your car keys before a trip)

• Progress photos (e.g. start going to the gym)

• Medical images or tests

• Reports (e.g. Sleep graph)

• Accessing important things while offline

• Selecting and using text within images

🔐 Encrypted images

This newsletter frequently talks about the importance of having safe and secure notes. We must know that our notes are absolutely secure so that we don't self-censor our own thinking that we record.

The best way to do this is through end-to-end encryption. Reflect recently made images (and other files) end-to-end encrypted as well. This means only you can “decrypt” and view those files.

This allows you to save anything your heart desires to your notes, no matter how sensitive.

📡 Offline images

One of the most important features of a note-taking app is that your notes are always available to you, even if you do not have an internet connection.

Reflect now allows you to view and save images within your notes when offline. As soon as you go online again, the images will sync – just like the rest of your notes.

📲 Image tricks on mobile

Adding images on mobile

On the Reflect mobile app, you can add images in by either pasting, or using the button on the sliding menu.

Zoom into images

After clicking into an image, you can pinch to zoom and see the finer details.

Select text on images

You can actually select and interact with text on images (like a screenshot).

Tap and hold down over some text, and use the selection sliders to select the desired text. You can then copy the text, translate it or share it with external applications.