PDF++ et Zotero #122
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Hello there @bepolymathe, I am here for this discussion also. Currently I highlight in Zotero and then transition across to Obsidian. This plugin is allowing me to do all of the work in Zotero and thus allows a very slick system where I can click on an page link in Obisidna and it takes me directly to that place on the PDF. All links update when changes are made and etc. What I am thinking about, and wondering if it would be more fun to have a FaceTime about it, is what is the most conducive work flow for Zotero and Obsidian. I'm studying as Masters in Counselling and have a back ground in Advertising with a focus on systems design. If up for it. DM me. Then we could even offer back a work flow suggestion for the benefit of others. |
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Thanks, I was feeling exactly the same frustration with Zotero-related plugins and that was why I started writing this plugin. Glad it also worked out for you. My Zotero workflow is very simple: I use Zotero exclusively for scraping bibliographic metadata (using the Chrome extension), and then I use the Zotero Integration plugin to import it to Obsidian. After that, I don't interact with Zotero and I do all my work in Obsidian using PDF++. This approach increases the size of your vault, which can be problematic if you're using Obsidian Sync. But I'm no expert in Zotero and I guess there are a lot of things that I don't know about Zotero, which might help me make my workflow even better. If there are any interesting features of Zotero, I'm eager to know. I'm looking forward to seeing comments from you and other users in this thread:) |
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Interesting this is exactly what I want to do
You are a supreme legend and I thank you for that.
@RyotaUshio I would love to see a screen share of your Zotero import process. When I pull up my Zotero PDF folder, it's just a random bunch of numbers. Is that what you're symbolic linking to/from? Or is it more organised? At the moment, I have my whole vault syncing via iCloud, so I usually just import the PDF directly into obsidian so it's all in one spot. Using your process it means I wouldn't be able to access a PDF if I were to open my vault on an iPad, because the PDFs would be under desktop Zotero folder. Correct?
Curious, my main goal is to have everything is one vault package where I don't double up on document duplicates, this allows for easy pick up and go in case of redundancy and also making backups. Thanks again for your work and I'm really interested to see how you developed this and what obsidian end up picking up on and implementing themselves. I appreciate your values of dedication and diversity in the way in which this plug-in can be used. |
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Hello everyone, Thanks for your feedback. Personally, for importing a list I use a bit the same system as @RyotaUshio but with the Zotlit plugin which is faster in use. On the other hand, I prefer to leave all PDFs in Zotero because I sometimes annotate them in Zotero, especially since there are mobile/tablet versions. So my problem is that I have both annotations taken in Zotero and others in Obsidian. I'm still trying to figure out how it works... |
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Related to the discussion, I created a plugin to use an external BibTeX file which manages 10000 PDF documents in my library. I could integrate my plugin with PDF++. It works very nicely for me. I understand this is not the solution for Zotero. However, I opened a discussion to collect ideas of what could be a generalized solution that allows such extensions in the future. To make everything work for me, currently, I am having to fork PDF++ and change a couple of lines of code. It would be great if developers would have a way to link to PDF++ to provide extensions for managing external libraries such as BibTeX (in my case) or Zotero in your case. |
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Really cool suggestions to integrate zotero and obsidian! I would like to share my workflow which is similar to previous suggestions with slight variations. A big thank you to all these plugin and software contributors for making such awesome tools! Here is my workflow:
*Sometimes, the file field in bibtex file contains a html link to the webpage the paper is saved from, In that case, I just check the metadata of the note and copy the file name from the |
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Good morning,
Thank you really for this wonderful plugin.
I use Zotero for managing my bibliography and there are some very good community plugins for that. But one thing has always generated friction for me. I annotate in Zotero and I have to export these annotations into Obsidian with more or less sophisticated templates... and the problems that this poses when I then add annotations in Zotero or Obsidian. The arrival of PDF++ could change that.
Have you already experienced interesting workflows with Zotero and PDF++?
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