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Re: Zotero Better Notes – Knowledge management inside Zotero

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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.

You can use SyncThing

Re: Zotero Better Notes – Knowledge management inside Zotero

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Nice! 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…

IDK if it helps you, but a simple epub reader is Bookworm.

Re: Zotero Better Notes – Knowledge management inside Zotero

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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 knowle…

That's what it does, see its readme

Re: Zotero Better Notes – Knowledge management inside Zotero

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Obsidian 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?

I just store my vault in a backed up iCloud folder. Syncs to Apple devices automatically for free.

Re: Zotero Better Notes – Knowledge management inside Zotero

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I’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 ?

In practice the markdown to pdf conversion is performed by pandoc. Pandoc has functionality to recognise academic formatting styles (like APA, Harvard etc)

Pandoc also has functionality to turn a table of contents on based off of the semantic headers.

My guide is pulling together issues that arise across Zotero Obsidian Pandoc Word

I’ve found most forums are concerned with one or two of these steps depending which forums you’re visiting.

Re: Zotero Better Notes – Knowledge management inside Zotero

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Obsidian 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.

I mentioned my workflow in a separate comment here but I’d say for personal notes yes you can use Obsidian for everything.

Where Zotero has come in useful for me is to gather and sort academic journal articles and to be able to feed them into Obsidian.

Re: Zotero Better Notes – Knowledge management inside Zotero

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post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Charging for the sync is their primary revenue model. Zotero is doing the same.

I don’t bemoan this approach that basically gives everything local away for free.

Re: Zotero Better Notes – Knowledge management inside Zotero

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post #27

Obsidian 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?

I just use syncthing. Regarding keeping configurations in sync, I have a "template" vault where I install and test all my plugins first and have a script that copies the entire .obsidian folder (minus some specific files) from the template vault to all my other vaults which results in syncing of all plugins/settings. I did buy their Catalyst license though since I wanted to pay back something for all the good work they did.

Re: Zotero Better Notes – Knowledge management inside Zotero

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Obsidian 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.

When tables get too complex (e.g. generated columns using dataview) I switch to embedding subnotes using the ![[]] syntax and "clean embeds" CSS [1]. [1]: https://kool.casa/notes/dft1156nwrunrsma9dmyegh/

This is a good tip but I'm referring to the inadequacy of markdown tables + Obsidian plugins that deal with that. I'm yet to see a solution that works as well as tables in wiki. I think Obsidian should focus on improving that as part of the core software.
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