Does it give you a way to link a fragment of text in a PDF to notes about it somewhere else and navigate between the two? This is the biggest pain point that I basically solved manually in my PhD with a kind of made up system with hash tags embedded in PDF notes. It's such a painful process maintaining a collection of citations around a particular topic, and being able to map what papers support what pieces of knowledge along with context around that. Still seems relatively unsolved problem to me.
Zotero Better Notes – Knowledge management inside Zotero
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Re: Zotero Better Notes – Knowledge management inside Zotero
#22Nice! This seems to actually solve a problem in my workflow with Zotero: manage the _personal_ metadata around the references. How did I find the reference? What parts are relevant? Etc. Definately going to give it a try.
Yeah, I just stumbled upon this project and wanted to share, I'm currently using Obsidian for my personal wiki, but I use Zotero a lot as a paper repo and reader, the organization and metadata tools are great, and extending it to a more powerful note-taking tool seems like a no-brainer. Now it just needs an EPUB reader to replace Calibre, then it'd just be the perfect all-in-one personal library. For now I'm using th…
I also think an epub reader in zotero would make it a complete library manager. I used Calibre just for reading epubs, so I want to ask how and why do you need to sync its metadata with zotero?
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#23Obsidian has replaced all (work, home, mobile) note taking solutions everywhere for me. The last want from my side is removing the friction related to editing markdown tables (e.g. multi-line content in cells) - Obsidian has some plugins that makes things better but it is miles behind what, say, confluence wiki offers for tables.
Vrite was featured recently, I just mention it because I like how the editor does tables:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36446045
Obsidian should definitely take a page from that. I'm currently with a plugin they won't add to the community marketplace:
Re: Zotero Better Notes – Knowledge management inside Zotero
#24I’m using Zotero + Obsidian for my academic work and PhD. If anyone is trying to work out a Zotero to Obsidian to Word/Libre Office workflow, give it a look. I’ve created a GitHub repo README with instructions on linking everything together. Hopefully someone finds this useful, happy for more contributions also (hence why used a repo to do this) https://github.com/evolve2k/obsidian-pandoc-academic-word-do...
any examples of generated pdf ?
Oh good suggestion. I can’t get to it straight away but happy to add one. Feel free to add an issue in the repo, then I can report in once it’s added.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, I just stumbled upon this project and wanted to share, I'm currently using Obsidian for my personal wiki, but I use Zotero a lot as a paper repo and reader, the organization and metadata tools are great, and extending it to a more powerful note-taking tool seems like a no-brainer. Now it just needs an EPUB reader to replace Calibre, then it'd just be the perfect all-in-one personal library. For now I'm using th…
I also think an epub reader in zotero would make it a complete library manager. I used Calibre just for reading epubs, so I want to ask how and why do you need to sync its metadata with zotero?
I just like having the entire collection of files in one place, some of them are textbooks or reference books that don't sit well in either app entirely, and while I also keep novels there in a separate subcollection, most of my ebooks are non-fiction, where topics are the same or related to the rest of material I already keep in Zotero.
Some are non-academic PDFs, blueprints, guides, whitepapers or manuals that I refer to for a given project, and while this is not the main purpose of Zotero, as it is a research-oriented tool, it still proves more useful than other tools, tidier than classical folders+files, and less of a hassle than coming up with my own system using something like Obsidian's dataview plugin.
Calibre I prefer it to fix the metadata of my ebooks, but the local reading story isn't ideal for me. I've tried serving the collection over self-hosted web apps, to keep the page progress like calibre-web, but it wasn't ideal for me or conducive to what I look for: https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web
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#26Obsidian has replaced all (work, home, mobile) note taking solutions everywhere for me. The last want from my side is removing the friction related to editing markdown tables (e.g. multi-line content in cells) - Obsidian has some plugins that makes things better but it is miles behind what, say, confluence wiki offers for tables.
Vrite was featured recently, I just mention it because I like how the editor does tables: https://editor.vrite.io/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36446045 Obsidian should definitely take a page from that. I'm currently with a plugin they won't add to the community marketplace: https://github.com/Stardusten/ob-table-enhancer
Vrite doesn't support mobile though, which seems important for OC's usage.
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#27Obsidian has replaced all (work, home, mobile) note taking solutions everywhere for me. The last want from my side is removing the friction related to editing markdown tables (e.g. multi-line content in cells) - Obsidian has some plugins that makes things better but it is miles behind what, say, confluence wiki offers for tables.
Is it ok for you to pay 8$ monthly for sync between devices? Or did you use another way of sync or don't use it at all?
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#28Obsidian has replaced all (work, home, mobile) note taking solutions everywhere for me. The last want from my side is removing the friction related to editing markdown tables (e.g. multi-line content in cells) - Obsidian has some plugins that makes things better but it is miles behind what, say, confluence wiki offers for tables.
Is it ok for you to pay 8$ monthly for sync between devices? Or did you use another way of sync or don't use it at all?
That’s my only gripe with obsidian.. I’d like sync between my devices that avoids central servers.
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#29Zotero was key to finish my long delayed thesis, reducing the toil of managing a lot of references on a topic that I disliked more and more by the minute. Unfortunately back in the day they did not have yet the embedded PDF reader and highlighting features, but still was super helpful (I decided to stay away from Mendeley for license and affiliation reasons) I still keep Zotero around for some projects that require m…
> Zotero was key to finish my long delayed thesis, reducing the toil of managing a lot of references on a topic that I disliked more and more by the minute.
Exactly the same for me, I'm forever grateful.