Bookends to Obsidian with front matter filled

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I ended up writing this script with @ryanjamurphy’s comment as a sketch. It’s not exactly what you want since it doesn’t even use the front matter but I thought I’d post it here nonetheless since it was inspired by this thread. I also wrote it as an Alfred workflow instead of a plain AppleScript.

You can easily take the AppleScript from the workflow and modify it to your needs.

Bookends <-> Obsidian Alfred workflow

I created an Alfred workflow for myself that connects Obsidian and Bookends, but I thought I’d clean it up and share it. The workflow and instructions can be found here. Features: Creates a note in Obsidian for the selected Bookends reference with the following properties: File name: the cite key in Bookends (you have to have BiBTeX enabled, if the citekey field is empty it just throws an error in a notification). File contents include the title, authors, year, tags, URL and Bookends URL. P…