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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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suggestion: import Zotero notes into Obsidian #72

Open firinael opened 3 years ago

firinael commented 3 years ago

I know this sounds absurd, but hear me out.

There's a Zotero plugin that allows you to pull highlighted text from the PDF as notes inside Zotero.

Being able to import those notes into Obsidian with the rest of the stuff would be massive for this reason, it'd make it possible to make workflows much better and faster.

Also it'd allow this plugin to completely replace Mdnotes and I'd absolutely love that because Mdnotes restricts your formatting way too much.

Maybe also having an option to import those Zotero notes into separate Obsidian notes would be cool.

Thanks!

hans commented 3 years ago

Hi, your fellow user @brush701 just implemented this in a pull request — you'll have access to a {{note}} field in the next release of the plugin.

This will be released very soon. No control over how the note formatting gets imported at the moment, but I hope it's still an improvement! :)

Maybe also having an option to import those Zotero notes into separate Obsidian notes would be cool.

This sounds like zotero-mdnotes to me. Can you describe how what you're describing would differ from the existing plugin? (Or are you mainly interested in removing the formatting restrictions of zotero-mdnotes?)

firinael commented 3 years ago

This sounds like zotero-mdnotes to me. Can you describe how what you're describing would differ from the existing plugin? (Or are you mainly interested in removing the formatting restrictions of zotero-mdnotes?)

The main difference would be the removal of formatting restrictions, along with the possibility for synergies with other plugins that would come from that. It'd also streamline workflows, which is always a good thing.

If it's too hard to implement, or not worth the effort, that's okay. I'm just saying that, to me, it'd be a very nice feature.

Cutuchiqueno commented 3 years ago

for me the {{note}} placeholder does not import the content of the Zotero note generated by Zotfile. Is there anything particular that I have to respect for this to work? Maybe the language seetings make citation not recognize the correct note? Or does it only work when there is 1 note per publication?

EdSplendor commented 2 years ago

For me the {{note}} placeholder is not working as well. I cannot find this placeholder in your class entry documentation as well. Was it ever implemented?

orionpilot commented 2 years ago

{{note}} imports what's in the note field in the bibtex entry. This import works for me. I don't use zotero so I don't know how to setup mdnotes but it does sound like that's what you are looking for if you want notes created in zotero to get imported in obsidian.

EdSplendor commented 2 years ago

Thanks. I had to change from CS-JSON to BibLatex. Now it works.

hadifalex commented 2 years ago

Hello! very novice so apologies if this does not make sense. is it possible to have the notes imported into md format instead? I know that obsidian can read html as well, but it would be better if the imported notes worked with the rest of my work!

Many thanks!