#327

I would love to know this too. I’m having some success with this, but I don’t really know what I’m doing:

{{#if entry.titleShort}}{{entry.titleShort}}{{else}}{{title}}{{/if}}

#328

This plug-in has transformed how I go about my academic notes, so thank you to those who wrote it.

I managed to get more or less everything up and running as I would like it to, but I just have one nagging little issue left:
If I use {{title}} or {{entry.titleShort}} in the Literature Note Title Template, I lose capitalization of every word except for the very first one. The same {{title}} instead renders with the correct capitalization in the Literature Note Content Template.

I noticed that I can manually fix this by going into the .bib file and manually surrounding every word that needs to be case-preserved in curly brackets. Not a feasible project for several thousand entries, obviously. Does anyone know a fix, a workaround or even where does the problem originate?
Thanks!

#329

Hi. I like this plugin a lot.

However, I noticed that the {{year}} almost always is behind by one year from the actual year of publication in Zotero. I am a noob when it comes to the bib/json file. Is there any way to fix this? Thank you.

#330

Many thanks to this awesome plugin!

I have two quick questions:

  1. Like many of you, I am using Dropbox to store my .bib file. I use Obsidian on multiple windows machines. Unfortunately, all have different internal file paths to the .bib file (work machines). Now when switching the PC, I always must update to the correct file path of the .bib file. I was wondering if there is a solution for this. I tried using %homedrive%%homepath% but had no luck. Zotfile has a elegant solution to this imo. Is there a workaround?

  2. Is there any way to quickly update multiple literature notes when I change some information in zotero. For example, if I change the cite key.

Many thanks!!

#331

This plugging deserves an award! I used to do everything this plugging does manually, and it wasn’t very “clean.” This is amazing. Thank you!

#332

Hi everyone,
brief question if anyone else experiences a similar issue.

I installed the plugin on the latest version of Obsidian on Mac.
In the preferences I defined the notes folder and created it in my vault. When I try to add a new note I get an error that the folder is not available and I should create it.
I checked it on the file system, iCloud, and it is actually there.

Uninstalling and reinstalling the plugin doesnt help. Any idea?

Thanks

#333

Ok, got it. I has to be the exact name “Reading notes”, then it works

#334

Hi, I want to make a note for each author from the {{authorString}}. Could you suggest me how I can achieve this? I tried doing [[{{authorString}}]], but this makes a note with the name of all the authors.
Thank you very much.

#335

@aman I use this:

{{#each entry.author}}[[Authors/{{#if this.family}}{{this.family}}, {{#if this.given}}{{this.given}}{{else}}{{…/authorString}}{{/if}}{{/if}}|{{#if this.family}}{{this.family}}, {{#if this.given}}{{this.given}}{{else}}{{…/authorString}}{{/if}}{{/if}}]]; {{/each}}

It results in a note for each author, placed in the /Authors/ folder like
[[Authors/LastName1, FirstName1]]; [[Authors/LastName2, Firstname2]], but the | part means Obsidian automatically renders it with just the “LastName, First Name” format.

if you don’t want them inside an Authors/ folder you can just remove that part

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#336

Is there a way to use dataview to show only the literature cited in the markdown file that you tagged? I.e. you cite some literature with [@Foran2016] and the dataview only shows those cited, instead of tag them with #literature/thesis as in your showcase?

#337

Is there a way to automatically create the literature note when inserting the citekey?
Right now when I insert a citation it is a link to a non existent note, and if I use the citation command “open literature note” it will create it. On the other hand, if I just click on the link it will create an empty note, not the templated one.

I checked the github repo for the plugin and there is an open issue with no solution, and the last commit was six months ago. Is the plugin still being developed?

#338

@matteo - the command “Insert literature note link” is supposed to do exactly this. Have you tried that one?

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I see the developer on the forums frequently. I would venture that the plugin has been fairly stable of late, hence the lack of recent updates.

#339

I see, thank you. I was using the “Insert Markdown citation” command and expected that to do the same thing, but the “insert markdown citation” does not create the linked note. I’ll rebind the hotkey I use.

#340

I’m having the issue where it says this:
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The citation database path is: H:\Documents\Zotero-Library.json
Citation database format: CSL-JSON
Tried this both on a Macbook and PC running Windows 10.

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#341

Hello! I am getting an “Unable to Load Citiations, please update citations plugin settings”
I have tried several iterations of My Library.bib, even just with one brand new item in it with only the description and author fields. Using BibLatex format. Have full path to bib file defined. Not sure what’s going on?

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#342

It is working for me…

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#343

Hi, the citations appear to be loaded when I do ctrl+shift+E but when I click enter nothing appears on the note page. Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong? :smiley:

I get this error:
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#344

Note: Everything works when I select “Insert Markdown Citation” and “insert literature note content in the current panel”, just not for “Insert literature note link” or “open literature note”

#345

Sadly, I don’t think there is a way to do so as you want it. I usually add citations manually as I go and put the file in a document for organization purposes.

Either way, I’m not sure why would you want to add a thousand+ files suddenly in your vault, which could be very barren (unless you modify the template in the plugin)? I mean, either way, you have to add the information for each citation anyway… Unless I’m not understanding your question correctly?

#346

@HannahRoseKirk - This looks like the folder the plugin is looking for doesn’t exist.

What’s in this part of your Citation plugin settings?

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If it’s a non-existent folder, the note creation will error with the message you saw. If you have a folder specified, try creating it.