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500x faster mermaid rendering is the sleeper feature here, big diagrams used to make my notes lag. is the voice capture stuff local?

ha tree shaking for audio, love that. cutting filler words alone makes a podcast feel 20% tighter. do you do it by hand or use a tool?

the 16GB to 5GB thing still feels like cheating. how much quality do you actually notice dropping at 4-bit for everyday stuff?

the 50kb pdf limit gets me every time. i squeeze scans down in the browser with convertlo, no signup: convertlo.pro/compress-pdf-t…

Good reminder. You don't have to pick one format for everyone. A <picture> tag can serve JXL to browsers that support it, while crawlers and link previews still get AVIF, WebP or JPEG.

The JPEG Trust Summit is next week in London (Nov 12–13). It's the ISO standard (21617) for proving where a photo came from and how it was edited. My take: the standard isn't the hard part. Many sites strip metadata on upload, so the proof is lost. Should platforms keep it?

Upload form keeps saying "image too large"? Here's a simple fix: resize it to the width they ask for, right in your browser. This 2400×3614 photo went from 1.9 MB to 629 KB at 1080 px wide, in seconds, with Convertlo's Image Resizer. No signup, no watermark, free.

Makes sense, I trust a tip way more when it feels like someone just showed me what they use. Did the ones that ended on a tip get more saves or more follows?

The "just one quick check" tab is how my whole afternoon disappears. Do you have a tab-hoarding limit or is it pure chaos?

Ha, this one gets people every time. PNG only makes sense for screenshots and flat graphics, photos should stay JPG. Do you usually go WebP instead for web stuff?

ok the snapping underlines to words part is what sells me, most annotators make my handwriting look like a ransom note. does it handle big scanned PDFs ok?

Did you know? A huge PDF is sometimes a font problem, not an image problem. PD4ML's Nov 1 release notes: embedding a 15 MB CJK font as a subset (only the characters used) turns a 23 MB PDF into a few hundred KB. PDF too big to email? Check fonts before you crush the photos.

Image resizing and compressing for me. A browser tool does it in seconds, no app to open. Renaming files in bulk is a close second.

If compressing didn't get it small enough, try lowering the resolution first (e.g. a video to 720p), or split it into two parts. A shared Drive/Dropbox link also works in DMs when the file is too big.

Good point. Same for screenshots of text: compress in small steps and zoom to 100% before sending. A browser compressor like Convertlo's makes it quick to try a few quality levels.

No café needed 🙂 Crop the photo to just head and shoulders first (smaller dimensions = smaller file), then compress as JPG and lower quality until it shows under 15 KB. Free in your browser, no signup: convertlo.pro/image-compress…

Great to see the real cost spelled out. Most 'must-have' add-on lists skip that the free ones do most of the work. Which one would you keep if you could only pick a single add-on?

Transparent recompression is an underrated idea: store it smaller, get the original back byte-for-byte. JPEG XL does the same for old JPEGs. Good to see it tried on whole archives.

JPEG XL is now in Chrome, Firefox and Safari. Is AVIF done? Not yet. Jake Archibald's benchmark: - Web photos: AVIF usually smaller - Screenshots/transparency: AVIF by a lot - Old JPEGs: JXL shrinks them 9–20%, no extra loss My take: AVIF for the web, JXL for archives. Agree?

Great list. My favorite kind of tool is the one that works right in the browser with no signup, nothing to install.