Feature request for remote media

[Mustafa Jamil]

I use SS on mobile and on a laptop, and use the cloud integration to keep data synced between the two. It's remarkably good software: reliable, has just the important feature set, and relatively easy to use. Dirk, Michael, and all the contributors, this is phenomenal work. 

SS does a great job of allowing the integration of locally sourced media with each dive log. 

The videos I've taken recently are 360 videos of entire dives. They're 10+ GB in size, so I host them as unlisted videos on YouTube to share with friends and family. 

To integrate them with each log entry, I just put a link to the relevant YT video as an http link in the notes section. Given the notes section is plain text, this isn't an actionable link, obviously.

My request: given how superb the integration is for locally hosted media, can I ask for just a little integration of remote-hosted media? I'm not expecting fanciness like syncing timelines etc. I'm hoping for some http rendering so I can embed a YT (or generally internet-hosted) video or a remotely hosted image and have it show up in the notes when I open an entry.

[Michael Keller]

Hi Mustafa.


Thank you for the feedback.

On 27/02/2026 05:34, Mustafa Jamil wrote:
> My request: given how superb the integration is for locally hosted
> media, can I ask for just a little integration of remote-hosted media?
> I'm not expecting fanciness like syncing timelines etc. I'm hoping for
> some http rendering so I can embed a YT (or generally internet-hosted)
> video or a remotely hosted image and have it show up in the notes when
> I open an entry.

I think fully fledget html media embedding is probably going a little
bit too far - after all we are trying to build and maintain a dive log
application. But we could have a look into supporting a way to add
clickable URLs to the dive log notes, and then open them in a browser.
Would this be suitable for your use case?


Ngā mihi

  Michael Keller

[Mustafa Jamil]

That would be very welcome. Thank you.

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[Robert C. Helling]

Michael,

while trying to implement this, I discovered we already have this feature: When I have an URL in my notes, at least on my Mac, I can command click on that link and it will be opened in the default web browser.

Robert

[Michael Keller]

Hi Robert.

On 02/03/2026 20:59, 'Robert C. Helling' via Subsurface Divelog wrote:

while trying to implement this, I discovered we already have this feature: When I have an URL in my notes, at least on my Mac, I can command click on that link and it will be opened in the default web browser.

That's interesting. I did my own testing but I did not discover that this functionality exists.

Maybe it would be easier for users to spot and use if we highlighted the URLs in the same way that ones added with an `<a>` tag (which does not actually work) are shown?

I also note that the URL detection seems to be flawed: Some characters are URL encoded and appended to the URL. I would assume that users using this functionality will copy/paste URLs that are already properly encoded, and not expect the logic to encode _some_ additional characters.

And it works on linux as well.

Ngā mihi

  Michael Keller

[Mustafa Jamil]

Yes, thank you, Robert, command-clicking works! Whoo hoo! I'd love for a solution that works cross-platform, but I'm grateful this works.

I would add my 2c and agree with Michael that the assumption should be that added URLs are properly URL encoded. The vast majority of folks will copy-paste from a web browser url or equivalent, and those locations will all display URL-encoded links. 

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