#1

For academic writing, it would be great to easily refers to papers on preprint servers (such as arxiv) or published (using DOI). When writing notes on projects, there can be a lot of citations, so having shortcuts would be very useful to reduce typing and avoiding cluttering the markdown source.

For preprint servers, the simplest solution would be to create automatically a link when recognizing the server name followed by a preprint ID, for example: arxiv:hep-th/9206084. This is the customary way of sharing papers in theoretical physics for example (so copying information from an email would directly create all necessary links). One could even remove arxiv: in the preview. A DOI can be linked using the prefix doi: and the address http://dx.doi.org/.

More generally, users could provide pairs of name and URL, such that name:ID maps to url/ID.

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Citations and bibliography
#2

Yes! In the future you could think of a browser plugin that would automatically create an obsidian note for each preprint, containing the doi, link and abstract.

#3

In fact after thinking a bit more, the best would be to have a plugin in Zotero (or any other bibliography management software) which uses Obsidian as a backend for its notes. Then the notes could be displayed both in Obsidian to be reused by other notes, but also be associated to the PDF.

I am thinking of building a new bibliography management software, I would definitely include this if I do.