Thanks for the video! I was surprised that the obsidian citations plugin wasn’t even mentioned. I assume that this is because @argentum isn’t using it? In any case, I’m trying to wrap my head around how mdnotes and citations relate to each other.
There is obviously some overlap in the functionality: both can create notes with metadata for articles/books in zotero. One pushes them from zotero to obsidian, the other pulls them out of zotero to obsidian. Both allow me to customize the templates based on which those notes are created, so I assume, I can create more or less identical notes in both. But I like the way how citations allows me to create a reference to a book/article for which I don’t even have a literature note yet (it creates a link to a non-existing note). I also like the way how I can create a literature note in obsidian and pull over the metadata from zotero.
So what I’m wondering is: does it make sense to use both the citations plugin and the mdnotes add-on? If so, what is a good way of setting this up?
At the moment, I’m thinking to create the meta-data notes with the citations plugin and push my annotations notes from zotero and transclude them in the meta-data note. But I still need to figure out how I need to name my notes-files so that this can be automated via a template. I’m also not sure what mdnotes features I’m missing if I go down that path…
Thanks in advance for any clarifications.