That is weird, but I’m not sure what could be the reason.
Can you reproduce it?
Now it’s completely not working. I really don’t know why.
I created an issue on github and gave as much info and files as possible.
I hope it will help find a solution. For now, this is really a bummer and I have no idea why it’s happening.
Thank you for opening the issue on GitHub. I will get back to you when I managed to reproduce it and fix it (it may be a few days)
Great, thanks! Hopefully, you’ll have everything you need with the files I have provided.
This is great plug-in! Infinitely more useful than the Citations plug-in for my needs. I have a question about the “Format Names” section in the preference. I’d like to have Last, Initials instead of Last, First. Is there a way to do this?
@va1984, adding just the initial is not possible yet, but it is an easy thing to add. I made a note of it. I’m currently swamped with my actual job but I hope to be able to add this and other requests soon.
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Thank you, Stefano!
Let me just say, I think that this plug-in is really huge and it comes close to realizing what, for me, has been a holy grail for I don’t know how long…:
…to have a library of .md files that mirrors the notes that I have taken on my 1000+ references collection over the years and that can be kept up to dates I take new notes and add more references.
It sounds simple but I was not aware of any (reasonably idiot-proof and automatic) way to do it until this plug-in (please correct me if I’m wrong).
For me, I have a wealth of bibliographic research material in my Bookends library (which I am contemplating permanently moving to Zotero to a large extent so I can use this plug-in). The data in Bookends is dead unless it is also in my .md note database, linked up with everything else. When I go write something new, I’m metaphorical miles away from some annotation I may have made deep in a pdf I read two years ago. This plug in brings it all in one place, one search for a keyword away. I think it’s a really profound improvement to any academic workflow that involves notes in a ref manager app and a folder of .md files. So neat!
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I have a related question.
I would like each author and editor to become their own links, so [[{{author}}]] works fine, even when a reference has multiple authors, they each get their own link.
But ideally I would like to have them end up automatically in a specific folder, so I tried [[Authors/{{author}}]]. It works great when there is one author only, but when there are multiple authors it just creates a single link, like [[Authors/Gerrard, Steve; Lampard, Frank]] rather than [[Author/Gerrard, Steve]] and [[Authors/Lampard, Frank]].
I suspect there may be a really easy fix for all this. Does anyone know?
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That is currently not possible and I can’t think about an easy workaround.
The original script that I used before turning this into a plugin also created an author note in a separate folder. I could import that function in the plugin but I do not know how helpful/used that would be, nor what should be the content
I can only speak for myself, but I would love such a feature. I would use an author-note as a
- hub for links to articles by the author
- a place where, via a #author, I can have a graphical connection between papers by an author and papers about that same author (which contain the #author tag). This happens quite a bit in the humanities, for example, where the people who write are also sometimes the people being written about.
- sometimes you just have thoughts or things to note about the literal person of the author. E.g. “invited him to give a talk on this-and-that on this-date. prefers to be contacted via secretary, email@ofsecretary. Started his career thinking of this but nowadays he writes almost exclusively about that.”
…and so on
That said, I appreciate that maybe I’d be in the minority in making use of such an option (?).
The current situation is good enough: via [[{{author}}]] I get placeholder links, if/when I click on one I can simply manually move it into /Authors/ just to keep the root folder clean.
Thanks again!
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Wow, this is amazing! Thank you so much for doing this!
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I created a new issue regarding updating notes and a missing line break.
Hopefully this will help people that were encountering bugs when updating notes multiple times - and hopefully it will be something quick to fix @stpag 
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I was wondering if it was possible to create a metadata option to pull in titles (linked by their citekeys) that appear in the related field in zotero entries?
Hi!
I have 6500 Zotero entries and 12 GB of notes in my Obsidian vault. Since I installed the plugin and uploaded my entire Zotero library, Obsidian became extremely slow so it is impossible to work with.
Do people have done similar experiences? Do you know what can be the reason?
This is worrying. If your better bibtex json file is very large, it may take a while for the plugin to parse it when you are importing/updating a reference, but I’m not sure why it would slow down Obsidian besides when you import/update reference. Is Obsidian still slow if you disable the plugin?
If anybody has some suggestions or similar experiences, it would be helpful to know.
~2500 references, no slowdown whatsoever here (on a M1 Pro Arm Mac)
@stpag any chance a future update may include support for standard CSL JSON in addition to BBT?
I now discarded all literature notes created through the plugin, while the plugin is still enabled. Now, Obsidian works well - but I have lost all my lit notes.
Maybe it’s a problem of Obsidian, which cannot handle more than x notes per vault? But then it would be better to have a solution like the Citations plugin, where you have only those references you directly quote from in your Obsidian notes.
What are the main differences in the format? I must confess that I have never exported a standard CSL JSON.
The reason why I went for BBT is because of the option of automatically updating the json file when the library is updated