diff --git a/apps/web/src/components/editor/tiptap.tsx b/apps/web/src/components/editor/tiptap.tsx
index 0cd427692..16c8f7c92 100644
--- a/apps/web/src/components/editor/tiptap.tsx
+++ b/apps/web/src/components/editor/tiptap.tsx
@@ -398,7 +398,7 @@ function toIEditor(editor: Editor): IEditor {
     loadImage: (hash, src) =>
       editor.current?.commands.updateImage(
         { hash },
-        { hash, src, preventUpdate: true }
+        { hash, dataurl: src, preventUpdate: true }
       ),
     sendAttachmentProgress: (hash, type, progress) =>
       editor.current?.commands.setAttachmentProgress({
diff --git a/packages/editor/src/extensions/image/component.tsx b/packages/editor/src/extensions/image/component.tsx
index 9a6116fa2..166d08240 100644
--- a/packages/editor/src/extensions/image/component.tsx
+++ b/packages/editor/src/extensions/image/component.tsx
@@ -44,7 +44,8 @@ export function ImageComponent(
 ) {
   const { editor, node, selected } = props;
   const isMobile = useIsMobile();
-  const { src, alt, title, width, height, textDirection, hash } = node.attrs;
+  const { dataurl, src, alt, title, width, height, textDirection, hash } =
+    node.attrs;
   const float = isMobile ? false : node.attrs.float;
 
   let align = node.attrs.align;
@@ -58,9 +59,10 @@ export function ImageComponent(
   useEffect(
     () => {
       (async () => {
-        if (!src) return;
+        if (!src && !dataurl) return;
         try {
-          if (isDataUrl(src)) setSource(await toBlobURL(src));
+          if (dataurl) setSource(await toBlobURL(dataurl));
+          else if (isDataUrl(src)) setSource(await toBlobURL(src));
           else {
             const { url, size, blob, type } = await downloadImage(
               src,
@@ -79,7 +81,7 @@ export function ImageComponent(
       })();
     },
     // eslint-disable-next-line react-hooks/exhaustive-deps
-    [src, imageRef, downloadOptions]
+    [src, dataurl, imageRef, downloadOptions]
   );
 
   return (
diff --git a/packages/editor/src/extensions/image/image.ts b/packages/editor/src/extensions/image/image.ts
index 767141e57..424e1e313 100644
--- a/packages/editor/src/extensions/image/image.ts
+++ b/packages/editor/src/extensions/image/image.ts
@@ -35,9 +35,29 @@ export interface ImageOptions {
   HTMLAttributes: Record<string, unknown>;
 }
 
+/**
+ * We have two attributes that store the source of an image:
+ *
+ * 1. `src`
+ * 2. `dataurl`
+ *
+ * `src` is the image's inherent source. This can contain a URL, a base64-dataurl,
+ * a blob...etc. We should never touch this attribute. This is also where we store
+ * the data that we want to upload so after we download a pasted image, its base64
+ * dataurl goes in this attribute.
+ *
+ * `dataurl` should never get added to the final HTML. This attribute is where we
+ * restore an image's data after loading a note.
+ *
+ * The reason we have 2 instead of a single attribute is to avoid unnecessary processing.
+ * Keeping everything in the `src` attribute requires us to always send the rendered image
+ * along with everything else. This is pointless because we already have the image's rendered
+ * data.
+ */
 export type ImageAttributes = Partial<ImageSizeOptions> &
   Partial<Attachment> & {
     src: string;
+    dataurl?: string;
     alt?: string;
     title?: string;
     textDirection?: TextDirections;
@@ -114,7 +134,12 @@ export const ImageNode = Node.create<ImageOptions>({
       hash: getDataAttribute("hash"),
       filename: getDataAttribute("filename"),
       type: getDataAttribute("mime"),
-      size: getDataAttribute("size")
+      size: getDataAttribute("size"),
+
+      dataurl: {
+        ...getDataAttribute("dataurl"),
+        rendered: false
+      }
     };
   },