Thank you for this tutorial and the template (bought!). I am a beginner-user with both pieces of software and was rather lost with integrating Zotero into Obsidian. Your walk-through was what I needed to understand the configuration of the add-on, and to understand better how the templating works. Thanks again.
Hey, thanks for the video. I discovered you recently and your videos have been very helpful to smooth out my own Obsidian plugin/workflow bloat. Quick question: At 7:30 you say "I export the notes to Obsidian via a hotkey and do my formatting there", could you elaborate? Maybe you explained it in a previous video? I spent *a lot* of time trying to get the Zotero->Obsidian transition to be smooth and the best plugin I found for that is Bibnotes Formatter by Stefano Pagliari, but perhaps you have a quicker way? Thanks!
@@Doomgutt @Danny Hatcher Hi, I am also interested in how you managed to complete that integration, I have searched for the plugin that you mentioned and could not find it, would you mind pasting it here please? Love your videos they have been a great help even though I am only a couple of months into using obsidian!
Zotero AI plugin PapersGPT, in which you can seamlessly chat pdf with the best AI models, such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Llama, and QwQ o1 model. It will definitely improve your efficiency a lot for reading papers.
Sorry to come with another question. After capturing a blog for example with zotero plug in. How do you link the associated pdf saved from the same location with the reference. How is this process automated
PDF attachments in Zotero should be automatically associated with an item. If you save the PDF manually you can drag them into the item. Linking Zotero to Obsidian can be done with this plugin and the markdDBconnect plugin for Zotero.
I do this same thing by also archiving all sorts of non-academic articles I like, partially inspired by your earlier videos. There is now a night mode plugin which makes it nicer. Wish list: 1) Native Zotero Android app, not just Zoo for Zotero. 2) ePUB/HTML annotation support. 3) more streamlined links and annotations access in Obsidian.
Firs 2 I understand, 3rd I am not sure what you mean? I have a link in obsidian that jumps me to the zotero highlight. (The export mentioned) I assume you are referring to something else?
@@DannyHatcherTech I do the same thing with the 📕tag that indicates you can jump straight to the Obsidian note. I love that. Specifically, on the Obsidian side I haven't found a plugin I love, one that gives me the Obsidian select link based on Item ID (which I prefer to citekeys, which can change and void links), and the obsidian open specific page (or specific annotation?) links don't work for non pdfs and have seems a bit finicky to me anyway. Citations plugin on Obsidian is alright, but not updated. In Zotero there are ways to export PDF annotations to markdown but I wish it could be more instantaneous and effortless - you indicate once that you want a source note that contains your annotations, and thereafter, any annotations you make get automatically updated in that note (and you can also use that note for other things, which aren't affected - maybe under a different markdown heading section). I actually think github.com/elias-sundqvist/obsidian-annotator is very insightful and even handles html/epub, but it's too specific to obsidian - I'd want something like it to integrate with the wider Zotero use case. This is probably a bit of a pipe dream.
Sorry about the delayed response. Putting links in comments puts the comment in the blocked words list for TH-cam. Zotero Integrations plugin in Obsidian does all the annotation exports I need. Zotero ID link, specific annotation link, updates annotations on export rather than brand new one. The template you create gives you full flexibility. It just takes time to set up to start with.
Many thanks for your run-through Danny. Regarding tags, is there a way to get it to prompt/autosuggest (autocomplete) them? Necessary because I have orders of magnitude greater numbers of tags than 9. I currently use Notion, and the Chrome plugin Notion Saver does exactly that, based on my Master tags table (in Notion). Is there a way to do that using Obsidian together with either Zotero or some other app/service/browser-plugin? "Tags disconnect" is one of the (small number of) things making me hesitant about switching to Obsidian (despite its many advantages).
When you type the # it gives a drop down of all the tags, as you start typing the list narrows in. Tag wrangler community plugin is useful. If you use templator community plugin you can hoteky any tag aswell 😁
Yes. All content is in zotero. I don't read many books but you tag them how you want. Even if I have the physical book I put it in zotero so the obsidian note has a digital reference.
Hey, nice guide. If you are working on 2 separate word files and use zotero for references, is it possible to combine these 2 word files into 1 and have the references organized automatically in order?
That is a good question. If you have used the zotero citation on both files you should be able to merge the files and the bibliography tale the citations, but I haven't tried it myself 🤷♂️
Thank you for this tutorial and the template (bought!). I am a beginner-user with both pieces of software and was rather lost with integrating Zotero into Obsidian. Your walk-through was what I needed to understand the configuration of the add-on, and to understand better how the templating works. Thanks again.
Thanks so much. I've watched this a couple of times now and have a good handle on the basics. I'm switching from End Note to Zotero.
That is great to hear! As long as it works for you
Hey, thanks for the video. I discovered you recently and your videos have been very helpful to smooth out my own Obsidian plugin/workflow bloat. Quick question:
At 7:30 you say "I export the notes to Obsidian via a hotkey and do my formatting there", could you elaborate? Maybe you explained it in a previous video? I spent *a lot* of time trying to get the Zotero->Obsidian transition to be smooth and the best plugin I found for that is Bibnotes Formatter by Stefano Pagliari, but perhaps you have a quicker way?
Thanks!
Hi, always happy to chat.
I use the Zotero integrations plugin with a template that brings in all the information formatted the way I want.
@@DannyHatcherTech Thanks, I'll give it a look!
@@Doomgutt @Danny Hatcher
Hi,
I am also interested in how you managed to complete that integration, I have searched for the plugin that you mentioned and could not find it, would you mind pasting it here please?
Love your videos they have been a great help even though I am only a couple of months into using obsidian!
Thank you for the video. It was very helpful!
Glad I could help 😁
Zotero AI plugin PapersGPT, in which you can seamlessly chat pdf with the best AI models, such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Llama, and QwQ o1 model. It will definitely improve your efficiency a lot for reading papers.
Sorry to come with another question. After capturing a blog for example with zotero plug in. How do you link the associated pdf saved from the same location with the reference. How is this process automated
PDF attachments in Zotero should be automatically associated with an item. If you save the PDF manually you can drag them into the item.
Linking Zotero to Obsidian can be done with this plugin and the markdDBconnect plugin for Zotero.
can someone please share how zotero can be used with youtube or where i can find information on this
When you are on a video, there is clipper (assuming you have it installed) on your browser.
Push it and it should be clipped into your Zotero.
@@DannyHatcherTech thanks I will give it a shot
thanks for the feedback its working well. is there a way to capture time stamps as I am making notes@@DannyHatcherTech
@@giftcp82 I do it by right click on YT vid then copy timestamp and paste it over my note
Much appreciated Danny@@DannyHatcherTech
I do this same thing by also archiving all sorts of non-academic articles I like, partially inspired by your earlier videos. There is now a night mode plugin which makes it nicer. Wish list: 1) Native Zotero Android app, not just Zoo for Zotero. 2) ePUB/HTML annotation support. 3) more streamlined links and annotations access in Obsidian.
Firs 2 I understand, 3rd I am not sure what you mean?
I have a link in obsidian that jumps me to the zotero highlight. (The export mentioned) I assume you are referring to something else?
@@DannyHatcherTech I do the same thing with the 📕tag that indicates you can jump straight to the Obsidian note. I love that. Specifically, on the Obsidian side I haven't found a plugin I love, one that gives me the Obsidian select link based on Item ID (which I prefer to citekeys, which can change and void links), and the obsidian open specific page (or specific annotation?) links don't work for non pdfs and have seems a bit finicky to me anyway. Citations plugin on Obsidian is alright, but not updated.
In Zotero there are ways to export PDF annotations to markdown but I wish it could be more instantaneous and effortless - you indicate once that you want a source note that contains your annotations, and thereafter, any annotations you make get automatically updated in that note (and you can also use that note for other things, which aren't affected - maybe under a different markdown heading section). I actually think github.com/elias-sundqvist/obsidian-annotator is very insightful and even handles html/epub, but it's too specific to obsidian - I'd want something like it to integrate with the wider Zotero use case. This is probably a bit of a pipe dream.
Sorry about the delayed response. Putting links in comments puts the comment in the blocked words list for TH-cam.
Zotero Integrations plugin in Obsidian does all the annotation exports I need. Zotero ID link, specific annotation link, updates annotations on export rather than brand new one. The template you create gives you full flexibility. It just takes time to set up to start with.
Hello Danny. Nice in depth tutorial. Could you please do a review or guide on Zotero Better Notes Plugin?
It is on the very long list 😁
Many thanks for your run-through Danny. Regarding tags, is there a way to get it to prompt/autosuggest (autocomplete) them? Necessary because I have orders of magnitude greater numbers of tags than 9. I currently use Notion, and the Chrome plugin Notion Saver does exactly that, based on my Master tags table (in Notion). Is there a way to do that using Obsidian together with either Zotero or some other app/service/browser-plugin? "Tags disconnect" is one of the (small number of) things making me hesitant about switching to Obsidian (despite its many advantages).
When you type the # it gives a drop down of all the tags, as you start typing the list narrows in.
Tag wrangler community plugin is useful.
If you use templator community plugin you can hoteky any tag aswell 😁
@@DannyHatcherTech Superb, thank you Danny, I'll look into those
I am curious, what does the color of your highlights represent?
For me yellow is a first run through, and red the second run through.
Do you put books you want to read in Zotero?
Yes. All content is in zotero.
I don't read many books but you tag them how you want.
Even if I have the physical book I put it in zotero so the obsidian note has a digital reference.
Hey, nice guide. If you are working on 2 separate word files and use zotero for references, is it possible to combine these 2 word files into 1 and have the references organized automatically in order?
That is a good question. If you have used the zotero citation on both files you should be able to merge the files and the bibliography tale the citations, but I haven't tried it myself 🤷♂️
Excellent. I see you are using Zotero-markdb-connect. I mentioned it in a previous comment but didn't realise you already used it.
Yeah. it is a great plugin!
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