diff --git a/internal/vault/vault.go b/internal/vault/vault.go
index 6f1f9b8..40e46a6 100644
--- a/internal/vault/vault.go
+++ b/internal/vault/vault.go
@@ -3051,12 +3051,15 @@ func cleanAssetFilename(name string) (string, error) {
 }
 
 // makeAssetMarkdown mirrors the desktop markdownForImportedAsset: everything is
-// linked by VAULT-relative path, an image as a wikilink and anything else as a
-// markdown link, which is the single form every client now writes. The link
-// used to be relative to the note, so it broke as soon as the note moved to
-// another depth (nothing rewrites relative asset paths on move).
+// linked by VAULT-relative path, an image, PDF, audio or video file as an embed
+// the note shows in place (a picture, a document, a player) and anything else
+// as a markdown link, which is the single form every client now writes. The
+// link used to be relative to the note, so it broke as soon as the note moved
+// to another depth (nothing rewrites relative asset paths on move), and media
+// used to be a bare link, so an attached video showed only its file name.
 func makeAssetMarkdown(vaultRelPath, kind, name string) string {
-	if kind == "image" {
+	switch kind {
+	case "image", "pdf", "audio", "video":
 		return "![[" + vaultRelPath + "]]"
 	}
 	dest := "<" + strings.ReplaceAll(vaultRelPath, ">", "%3E") + ">"
diff --git a/internal/vault/vault_test.go b/internal/vault/vault_test.go
index 3616ca9..89bfedb 100644
--- a/internal/vault/vault_test.go
+++ b/internal/vault/vault_test.go
@@ -143,6 +143,30 @@ func TestImportAssetEmbedsImagesByVaultRelativeWikilink(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+// Media embeds so the note shows a player or the document in place, the same
+// rule the desktop and both phones follow; any other file stays a link.
+func TestImportAssetEmbedsMediaAndLinksOtherFiles(t *testing.T) {
+	root := t.TempDir()
+	v, err := New(root, Options{})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	for _, tc := range []struct{ name, kind, markdown string }{
+		{"Clip.mov", "video", "![[assets/Clip.mov]]"},
+		{"Talk.mp3", "audio", "![[assets/Talk.mp3]]"},
+		{"Year end.pdf", "pdf", "![[assets/Year end.pdf]]"},
+		{"Archive.zip", "file", "[Archive.zip](<assets/Archive.zip>)"},
+	} {
+		asset, err := v.ImportAsset("Note.md", tc.name, bytes.NewReader([]byte{1, 2, 3}))
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("%s: %v", tc.name, err)
+		}
+		if asset.Kind != tc.kind || asset.Markdown != tc.markdown {
+			t.Fatalf("%s: kind %q markdown %q, want %q %q", tc.name, asset.Kind, asset.Markdown, tc.kind, tc.markdown)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
 func TestImportAssetScrubsNamesThatBreakWikilinks(t *testing.T) {
 	root := t.TempDir()
 	v, err := New(root, Options{})