#5

Hi @ToniB, I suspect it’s related to what is being chosen. Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to make the menus context-aware yet (I am planning to add notifications for success/errors, but it’s going to take a little while). At the very top of the readme, there is a link of what needs to be selected for the menus to work: cheatsheet.

Let me know if that doesn’t work out for you! Feel free to reach out in the #academia channel in the Discord server too!

#6

Hey @argentum I finally figure it out thanks to your comment. The problem is that I was trying to export standalone notes. When I export notes inside items, then it works perfectly.

By exporting some I noticed that the “relate” field is not kept in the md note (as a link to those notes), which I guess makes sense because that note could not exist if and I do not create it as well. Since that field is gold, I will not use Zotero as a Zettelkasten tool, yet your script is still pretty cool and I will use it for other ends in my workflow. Thank you again!

#7

Oh yeah, at the moment I haven’t looked into those! Feel free to open an issue for them though, I think they might be easy to add. Would you place them below the H1 header of the md file?

Disclaimer: I do have a few pending requests, and it might take me a little time to get to all of them, but I’ll definitely take a look!

#8

So cool ! I find this function so hard and I also very like the dark mode of zotero as you show in github, can you share it ? Thanks very much!

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#9

On linux is possible to set dark theme to some of the applications by choosing dark system theme, other way around is to copy css theme

#10

Hey all,

I was wondering if anyone could give me any guidance. I have installed Zotfile, made relevant notes/highlights and extracted annotations into a note in Zotero. But I cannot export that zotero note to markdown, no option is available upon right click.

Is there something I have done in the install? I have removed and re-installed but same issue.

Running off Mac BigSur 11.1

Thanks in advance!

#11

Hi @Dan_Martin77! You have to install the mdnotes plugin for that (it’s not part of Zotfile).

#12

Thank you so much. How naive of me.

Appreciate your support/patience!

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#13

It would be great to have notes auto exported from Zotero and auto-imported in Obsidian. Anyone have some ideas on how to do this? I do not want to go through the entire process of exporting, saving in a location, then opening them and copying them into obsidian.

#14

Why don’t you export directly to your obsidian vault? (That’s what I do). No way to automate the extraction, that I know of, but you can for sure reduce the number of steps so it’s barely noticeable.

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#15

I’m having an issue that is just baffling me. I’ve just set up mdnotes along with Cat’s suggested workflow, and it works except that the exported annotations don’t include blockquotes. I’m running the current beta of Zotero and the dev build of Zotfile, which I figure might be causing the issue, but if there’s something I’m missing in the config I’d really appreciate the help.

#16

Are you using the latest mdnotes build (alpha4)?

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#17

Aha! I was on 0.1.3; just downloaded alpha 4 and blockquotes appear to be working. Thanks for the help and the excellent plugin!

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#18

On my export Im not getting the page of the annotation linked. Im using the zotero-beta pdf tools.
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#19

You won’t get links with the Zotero beta. Please see Zotero with integration of pdf.js - already available in Beta - #2 by argentum

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#20

Hi, newbie here.

I managed to get zotfile to extract notes by color in Zotero via Manage Attachments > Extract Annotations following your post, yet I can’t make it work via Mdnotes > Extract to markdown. Nothing happens.

Using last zotero version in windows 10.

Plus, how should I set the default folder directory to export the markdown files for it to be the same folder the pdf is set in?

Thanks a lot!

#21

Which version is that for you? Is it the alpha version linked in the releases?

This is not currently possible! If you’d like this, please open an issue on the repository so I don’t forget!

#22

Hi, I managed to get it to work! It was my fault by not understanding that I should first use Zotfile to get the notes inside Zotero via Extract Annotations and then use mdNotes to create the Batch Export. I was assuming the second already covered the first action, my bad.

Regarding the folder directory thing, I opened an issue in Github as you requested.

Thank you!

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#23

Hello @argentum,

First of all, THANK YOU for this wonderful plugin!
I’m not sure if this is the place to ask for new features (sorry if not), but would it be possible to set different paths for the mdnotes generated files? It would be marvellous if I could automatically send the metadata and extracted annotations to a folder separate from my literature notes folder.

Thanks!

#24

Happy to hear it’s been useful for you! For feature requests, it’s usually best to add them as GitHub issues! I’m almost sure someone asked for something similar, but if you add a comment it lets me gauge interest and take it into account in the way I prioritise requests!

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