My Zotero Workflow

Step by step instructions for integrating Zotero and Obsidian

I'm using another one of Christian's processes: How I Read Research Papers with Obsidian and Zotero | Christian B. B. Houmann

Use the zotero.js Quickadd script and the πŸ“„ Add New Paper command

Process Outline

  1. Add paper to Zotero inbox
  2. Read the paper when I have time β€” and take notes
  3. Automatically ingest it into Obsidian with the desired template and metadata
  4. Processing the notes; thinking through the ideas and turning them into separate notes if desired

How you can use it

Any of the following variables can be accessed with {{VALUE:variable}}, where variable is the name of the variable. Most of these are from the Citations plugin, but I’ve added a few extra ones for convenience.

These can be used in your Template Choice as well as your markdown template.

  • fileName β€” paper title with all the special, illegal characters removed.
  • author β€” all authors in the format you defined. You can use any of the variables here, except formattedAnnotations and author to define the format.
  • formattedAnnotations β€” all annotations in the format you defined. You can use any of the variables here, except formattedAnnotations and author to define the format.
  • key
  • version
  • itemType
  • title
  • creators
  • abstractNote or abstract
  • publicationTitle
  • volume
  • issue
  • pages
  • date
  • series
  • seriesTitle
  • seriesText
  • journalAbbreviation
  • language
  • DOI or doi
  • ISSN or issn
  • shortTitle
  • url
  • year
  • accessDate
  • archive
  • archiveLocation
  • libraryCatalog
  • callNumber
  • rights
  • extra
  • tags
  • collections
  • relations
  • dateAdded
  • dateModified
  • shortAuthor - e.g. Silver et al.

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