diff --git a/src/main.ts b/src/main.ts
index ea0d0c8..13f1a74 100644
--- a/src/main.ts
+++ b/src/main.ts
@@ -255,11 +255,8 @@ export default class ExcalidrawPlugin extends Plugin {
     //    const patches = new OneOffs(this);
     if (this.settings.showReleaseNotes) {
       //I am repurposing imageElementNotice, if the value is true, this means the plugin was just newly installed to Obsidian.
-      const obsidianJustInstalled = this.settings.imageElementNotice;
-      if(obsidianJustInstalled) {
-        this.settings.imageElementNotice = false;
-        await this.saveSettings();
-      }
+      const obsidianJustInstalled = this.settings.previousRelease === "0.0.0"
+
       if (isVersionNewerThanOther(PLUGIN_VERSION, this.settings.previousRelease)) {
         new ReleaseNotes(
           this.app,
diff --git a/src/settings.ts b/src/settings.ts
index 1d6f101..3fbfe8d 100644
--- a/src/settings.ts
+++ b/src/settings.ts
@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ export const DEFAULT_SETTINGS: ExcalidrawSettings = {
   mdCSS: "",
   scriptEngineSettings: {},
   defaultTrayMode: false,
-  previousRelease: "1.6.13",
+  previousRelease: "0.0.0",
   showReleaseNotes: true,
   showNewVersionNotification: true,
   mathjaxSourceURL: "https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/mathjax@3.2.1/es5/tex-svg.js"