Zotero and Obsidian
Goal: Interact with Zotero from within Obsidian
Solution: “Citations”1 plugin for Obsidian, “Better Bibtex”2 plugin for Zotero!
- Creating a local self-updating bibtex export:
- In Zotero, File->Export, format is “Better Bibtex”
- this shows an additional checkmark for keeping it autoupdated, check it
- file is now at the resulting path
- Setting up Obsidian with Citations (in Citations plugin settings):
- set the path to the one above
- and the format to BibLaTeX (or it’ll will fail with a generic error)
- Through the Palette run “Refresh citation database” (and do it every time something changes)
- Operation
- Search in palette for “Citations”
- Pandoc format citations3 are the default, but can be changed (almost anything can be changed!)
Neat bits:
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There’s a configurable “Citations: Insert Markdown Citation” thing!
- My current template:
<_`@{{citekey}}` {{titleShort}} ({{year}}) [z]({{zoteroSelectURI}})/[d](https://doi.org/{{DOI}})_>
- Legal fields:
- {{citekey}} - {{abstract}} - {{authorString}} - {{containerTitle}} - {{DOI}} - {{eprint}} - {{eprinttype}} - {{eventPlace}} - {{page}} - {{publisher}} - {{publisherPlace}} - {{title}} - {{titleShort}} - {{URL}} - {{year}} - {{zoteroSelectURI}}
- My current template:
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hans/obsidian-citation-plugin: Obsidian plugin which integrates your academic reference manager with the Obsidian editor. Search your references from within Obsidian and automatically create and reference literature notes for papers and books. ↩︎
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retorquere/zotero-better-bibtex: Make Zotero effective for us LaTeX holdouts ↩︎
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