Question: Integration with .bib files exported by Mendeley

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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Question: Integration with .bib files exported by Mendeley #102

Open Chris-mik opened 3 years ago

Chris-mik commented 3 years ago

@Hans thank you for the amazing contribution! Is there any smooth way that the plugin could work also for Mendeley users? How can one include other variables in the template, such as journal, keywords or pdf file paths, that already exist in the .bib file?

orionpilot commented 3 years ago

Hi, if you want to use other varibles that are in the .bib file, use {{entry.data.fields.VARIABLE}}, as explained in #100. I have an extra script that runs with templater in order to get the right pdf paths though.

Can't help with anything specific with Mendeley though, I use JabRef.

Hope that helps!

annabelfan commented 1 year ago

Hi @Chris-mik !

I am also a Mendeley user setting this plugin up to work with my library.

Here is what worked for me:

Select references you want to export from Mendeley
Hit Export > as a BibTex file
In Obsidian, under the Citations Plugin change: the Citation database format to BibLaTex, copy the path to your export.bib file into the Citation database path, set an existing folder in your vault as the Literature note folder

Hopefully, you've figured it out on your end already!