[Note Template] Export and sync note with citekey as title

[bepolymathe]

Hi @windingwind

Thanks for this plugin ! And happy new year.
I happily use the syncronization of the notes between Zotero and Logseq (thanks to better-notes) but I would like the exported notes to be titled the number of "citekey" inherited from BetterBibtex. Is it possible ?

[windingwind]

Yes. Modify the ExportMDFilename template to fit your needs.

Let me know if you have any difficulties.

[bepolymathe]

Ok, i think it’s somethings with <p>${topItem.citationKey ? topItem.citationKey : ""}</p> 🤔

in the ExportMDFilename... maybe like this ?

${(noteItem.getNoteTitle ? noteItem.getNoteTitle().replace(/[/\\?%*:|"<> ]/g, "-") + "-" : "")}${topItem.citationKey }.md

[windingwind]

The filename is a pure string, not an HTML element. Don’t wrap it with

.

Not sure if citation key can be get directly. I guess you should use getField?

[bepolymathe]

My dream is to have something like this as result

[bepolymathe]

I guess you should use getField?

I have to learn about this...

[windingwind]

Yes, it is possible. I’m not familiar with BBT thus not able to provide the template you beed right now. Tomorrow I will have time to test it.

Don’t worry about it. It’s easy.

[bepolymathe]

Thanks for your help, I'm not a developer. In my example below, the export should be formatted with metadata which is the logseq format (a little different from classic Yaml).

[windingwind]

More details about the logseq yaml format would be helpful. Does logseq has any private format? Are there any general yaml features that logseq does not support?

[windingwind]

Sorry I misunderstood the md titles you mentioned here. The title refers to the first line of the exported md file, not the filename, right?

[bepolymathe]

I was thinking well of the file name and not the first line of the file. My idea is to use the MarkDBConnect plugin which detects files with the name of the BBT citkey and indicates it in Zotero...

[windingwind]

Try this for your ExportMDFileName:

@${(noteItem.parentItem && noteItem.parentItem.getField("citationKey")) || noteItem.key}.md

The YAML header is defined in ExportMDFileHeader.

[aathanor]

For me this code does not get the citation key, The filename contains only the itemKey. If I remove the || noteItem.key, I get "@undefined". Tested it by selecting individual notes, group of notes or the parent item itself (the way I use it normally).

Funny thing, ExportMDFilenameV2 shows the correct preview in Template editor, with the citation key. But if saving using the template, with the same note selected, the result is @undefined.

[bepolymathe]

Thanks, it works for the file name.

For the metadata export step, if I understand correctly, I absolutely must keep the YAML at the head so that Zotero Better Notes recognizes the note by his ID and is able to synchronize it 🤔

The format recognized in Logseq for a good quality display would assume that I arrive at something like this as a header.

alias:: TITLE
tags:: [[tag1]]
type:: [[ZoteroType]]; 
source:: [[zotero]] 
date::  2022
pages:: 84
url:: [Web site](https://www...)
zotero_link:: [citekey](zotero://select/items/@citekey)
file:: ![TITLE](file:///home/bepolymathe/Zotero/storage/PQU6ZZ3C/PDF_NAME.pdf)
icon:: 📚

The question I ask myself. Could it be possible that the ID for Zotero Better Notes is included in the top file metadata in logseq ? By adding for example a line like this

BetterNotes:: noteItem.key

[anandkumar89]

looking for: @citeKey/noteTitle in alias to each item-note created in zotero. Instead of noteTitle, shortTitle can also be used when available.

my use case : cite keys are easier to remember and aliases are searchable in various note taking apps (e.g. obsidian [[@citekey...]] will suggest all notes with specific aliases)

Until now I used obsidian plugins to cite literature, but that would be rendered obsolete as zotero/betternotes is sufficient for all literature note taking.

[duduOliver]

The following code helps and hope it works for you:
header.citationKey = noteItem.parentItem? noteItem.parentItem.getField("citekey") : "";