However, I still don’t know how to solve question 2, adding to that:
Is there a way of updating all the reading notes created with the plugin after updating the plugin’s template?
I set my .bib file to keep updated with Zotero, but sadly, it is not working.
Thanks!
Hi, somehow I can’t open Zotero’s saved PDF file from Obsidian. I added this line to the template [PDF]({{entry.files.[0]}}) which looks fine but when I click on the PDF file, I received an error from windows stating “You’ll need a new app to open this link” even though my PC has Acrobat PDF installed and it has always been my default reader since day 1.
Iˋm also having this problem. Iˋm using a Galaxy Tab S6 Lite. It shows the same message, so I canˋt open the plugin settings
I also encountered this problem. I current walk around is pressing keyboard {End} to go to end of citation.
However this will only work when you insert citation at the last part of line, which is usually my work flow.
I have the same issue and have not managed to solve it yet or to pinpoint the source of the problem. Did you fix it?
So I have Citations working well enough to where I can load metadata and my annotations notes from Zotero into a new note I call a “Reference Note”. Does anyone here know how to use Obsidian’s “Templater” plugin to automatically create a “Literature Note” based on the metadata from my “Reference Note” when the reference note is created? This thread has some decent information but I’m not sure how to implement.
Hi,
thanks for the plugin @jgauthier, it makes obsidian so much more useful.
I just encountered a small problem: For the template, I access author names by {{#each entry.author}}…{{/each}} which works perfectly fine. Doing exactly the same for editor names (e.g., for books), like this {{#each entry.editor}}…{{/each}}, does not work. In the bibtex (and the json) file from betterbibtex the structure of editor entries is exactly the same as for authors.
Any ideas?
Howdy y’all. I’d like to put the what is called the “Item Type” (book, journal article, etc.) in Zotero into my Obsidian citation. I’ve searched this forum and I’m still confused on how to make this happen. I’ve tried editing the literature note template with this placefiller but it didn’t work:
Item Type: {{itemtype}}
Any help would be appreciated!
Hi.
As far as I understand, this is solved by using “entry.type” (as long as the type is saved in the entry). In theory, you should be able to access any bibtex entry by using “entry.”.
Hi! Congratulations for the “Citation” plugin!
I would like to know: is there a way to open a PDF stored in Zotero directly from a link in Obsidian?
Another question: I’m not being able to import URL link of the file from Zotero using the option BibLaTeX. Any suggestions?
This would be great!
Thank you!
Hello, I am getting the “Unable to load citations. Please update Citations plugin settings” when trying to link this plugin to a .json that is stored in my Obsidian directory. I have Citation database format set to CSL-JSON.
OS: macOS Monterey 12.5
Obsidian version 1.0.0
Plug-in version 0.4.5
Hi, I can’t import my Zotero notes into Obsidian using the Citation plugin. I tried different formats (Better BibLaTeX, Better CSL JSON), but none of them work. Could you please help me figure out what I am doing wrong? Thank you in advance!
Hi, I have found this amazing plugin and want to thank you, but there is only a problem I can’t manage to solve, when I use {{entry.files.[0]}} the path of the pdf that’s returned starts with C\: and when I click to the link Obsidian can’t find the file. If I manually change it to simply C: it works fine.
Do you have any idea on how I can avoid this problem?
Thanks
In Literature note title template, I don’t use something simple like {{citeKey}} or {{title}} as a title for my Obsidian note. But something like DOC_TYPE YYYY-MM-DD {{title}}, where DOC_TYPE is a special character that quickly indicates if the document is a book, paper or article (this was inspired from Bryan Jenks Obsidian Workflow).
I have not found a way to automate the DOC_TYPE part, so this is added manually in the title after opening the note with citation plugin.
The problem is that whenever I open the note again with citation plugin, it does not recognize the title anymore.
Hello, apologies in advance if this has been already covered, but I couldn’t find it.
For some reason, the citation key in Zotero has changed, which means that now I risk generating duplicates in Obsidian when I insert a previously-inserted reference through the Citation plugin.
I have then decided to shift away from @{{citekey}} in the literature note title template, and use a different format.
Is there any way I can automatically update the previously-generated Literature note files to this new format?
Thank you
It would be great if this plugin could work on mobile. Even if we can’t add new sources, it would be so helpful to be able to at least access the sources already loaded.
Is the plugin able to render citations currently?
Hi,
my cloud solution limits me in file lengths. Unfortunately, I decided to use the {{title}} handlebar in the literature note title template and some papers have really long titles, so I get syncing errors I need to resolve manually. For the current errors, I am pretty sure, that I’ll have to do that, but I’d like to have a more failsafe solution for the future by shorten the tile. I found that I could use helpers to do use the JS substring function but as far as I understood the plugin does not allow writing own helpers.
Any ideas how to get, let’s say, the first 100 characters of the title only?
Sorry to dig this up again. I pasted your solution into my template, but i keep getting an error message 
I learned what YAML was yesterday so maybe I’m in too deep but thought I’d give you an ask
“—
Year: {{date | format(“YYYY”)}}
tags: {{allTags}}
Authors: {{#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}}
Status:
Priority:
—”
Title:: {{title}}
URL: {{url}}
Zotero Link: {{pdfZoteroLink}}