When I place an image in a notebook, the placed image is shown as Interior of the notebook on the map, which is convenient, but sometimes I feel it is distracting.
Is it possible to place an image in a notebook and have only a colored background on the map like the original?
By ‘notebook’, I’ll assume you mean a note. An image in a note’s text ($Text) is only shown on the map icon if the image is the very first content to appear. To make the image not appear, place something, e.g. a space before it.
This illustrates the result, both notes have the same note in their $Text, but in the second case the $Text starts with a space before the image:
Keep in mind, placing images in a note takes up a ton of space, it bloats your file size. If you’re going to work with a lot of images, I’ve found it best to keep the images outside of Tinderbox and pull them in with templates.