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?
Hello, I am hoping for some help. I have spent way too much time trying to figure out. I linked everything and I can find the citations and the file is linked. However - I save the annotations as a not using add note from citations. The folder appears correct. Yet no notes show up. What am I doing wrong. Obsidian can import highlight from Zotero? Or is there a better work flow? I want to highlight and then those go in as notes. I can use the actual citation feature which is cool. Or is readwise easier event though it is not free? Appreciate your time!
I had the same frustration with the lack of mobile support. Recently, I figured out a way to insert citations by typing @ and searching by title or citekey, which works on the mobile apps. It’s powered by the Various Complements plugin, using a custom dictionary converted from a bibtex bibliography.
Hi, I use Syncthing to work back-to-back from two different computers. Suppose I export my Zotero library from computer1 to computer1.json then syncthing’d it to computer 2, how can one “append” new citation from computer 2 to this snyc’d computer1.json?
Is it possible to update this computer1.json both from computer 1 and computer 2?
Probably I can make computer2.json and symlink this computer2.json to computer1.json?
This plugin worked sporadically but lately it’s just been broken most of the time. I spent a ton of time setting it all up but it doesn’t seem to work very consistently. I’ve given up on it.
You can use Zotero Integration + Pandoc Reference List or Zotlit instead. Both options are much more capable, and can import metadata and annotations, and insert citations.
Text in red in the yaml generally means that there’s some kind of error in the code. From your screenshot I can’t see errors but check it out. Maybe you should put in double quotes the title?
Thanks for the update and the code example using Handlebars. Great when wanting to keep e.g. the imported authors array as a list within Obisidian. For anyone searching for this, here’s how I do it in the template:
This happens to me as well. I am starting to suspect that it doesn’t like colons or perhaps other punctuation in the string? If I cut it the error goes away and I can paste it back immediately without the error coming up again.
Feature request : recognize and open literature note based on a field in the note
Problem description
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.
Possible solutions
Look for a field in the note (e.g. : itemID, citeKey, title, etc…) and open the corresponding note.