When trying to share a note by email or whatsapp, pictures or other content embedded in the note does not get shared, instead the shared note shows an internal file descriptor, similar to this instead of the picture or document:
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(:ae987z6tr5fnhuio8u76tgzunhc)
Text from the note gets shared as expected.
This happens on my ios device as well as on a friends android device. It also does happen when the mobile app is freshly installed, without any syncing in place, so I suspect the backend (nextcloud in my case) is not the root cause. Anyone else has that issue? Hard to believe that such basic functionality is not working, so what am I missing?
I don't use the mobile version of Joplin. Does it usually work ?
My experience with Whatsapp is that it's not not cool with everything that is not an image, a classical doc or a pdf. Even if we change the extension. So I never succeed to share a .jex or a .exe through Whatsapp.
I'm new to Joplin, so cant tell if its usually working. Just considered sharing notes a basic feature for a mobile app that should work without issues. I guess its not a whatsapp related problem, same effect by sharing with any other messenger I tried or even email. Seems the app just doesnt hand over the embedded document or pic in a proper way.
I'm afraid what you describe is expected behaviour: Joplin uses Markdown under the hood, and internal links to attachments get shared as plain text.
It's a long time since I used Evernote, OneNote and the like: I wonder how their mobile apps handle the issue. Maybe someone reading this can confirm whether these apps can or cannot transfer composite data such as text plus images or PDFs via the share sheet of iOS.
Just in case.... You can export a note into pdf and like this keep images... And there's no problem to share that.
More : some software are able to create pdf with attachments. It means you can embed media files into a pdf ans share this pdf like a container. I never try that with whatsapp but with email : no probem.
What a pity that this option doesn‘t exist in the mobile versions of Joplin. I think this is a feature which would be appreciated by many users of Android or Apple devices.
