Obsidian Gems of the Year 2021 nomination - Workflows

title: Comprehensive Academic Workflow from Reading to Writing in Markdown
author: myself (@anon56682183)

In the first half, I discuss and weigh setups and organizational practices for doing academic work in Markdown/Obsidian. In the second half, I lay out an overview of several tools necessary for the various steps of the workflow, covering various Obsidian plugins, and conclude with my own setup.

Also, the whole write-up was written fully on Obsidian, and all graphs are created with Obsidian’s built-in Mermaid implementation! :slight_smile:

The Academic Workflow from Reading to Writing

  • The generalized version
  • The simple Word-Zotero version
  • The Zotero-ZotFile-BetterBibTeX-MDNotes-Obsidian-Pandoc version
  • Decomposing the workflow into its subtasks

Overview: Tools for the individual Subtasks

  1. Organizing References
  2. Saving References
  3. Linking PDFs, Reference Entries, and Citations
  4. Extracting Annotations/Notes From PDFs
  5. Citation Picker for Automatic Citations
  6. Bibliography Creation
  7. Compiling Markdown with Citations

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