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:

• 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}}
    

• ishnid/zotero-obsidian