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 📄 Add New Paper command

Process Outline

Add paper to Zotero inbox
Read the paper when I have time — and take notes
Automatically ingest it into Obsidian with the desired template and metadata
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 — paper title with all the special, illegal characters removed.
author — all authors in the format you defined. You can use any of the variables here, except formattedAnnotations and author to define the format.
formattedAnnotations — 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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