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Re: Show HN: I built an Obsidian plugin to create notes from BibTeX

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ntnsndr wrote: post #9
evolve2k wrote: post #3

Great to see this. I’m using better-bibtex and the citation plugin currently in an extended workflow I’m calling the Obsidian Academic Stack. Would love to know if your plugin could enhance the stack. What is the Obsidian Academic Stack? I’ve been working on a stack which allows a workflow from Zotero > Obsidian > Pandoc > Word (with proper citations). The idea being that essays and thesis can be written using Obsida…

I do the same except in Emacs. If it is useful, see the pandoc command I've created in .emacs to enable output to multiple formats.

I’m not really very familiar with using emacs. Could you link us to a file? Thx

Re: Show HN: I built an Obsidian plugin to create notes from BibTeX

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Post by CiceroCiceronis »

evolve2k wrote: post #3

Great to see this. I’m using better-bibtex and the citation plugin currently in an extended workflow I’m calling the Obsidian Academic Stack. Would love to know if your plugin could enhance the stack. What is the Obsidian Academic Stack? I’ve been working on a stack which allows a workflow from Zotero > Obsidian > Pandoc > Word (with proper citations). The idea being that essays and thesis can be written using Obsida…

This is very interesting, following. I wrote about this issue a little a week or two back. Lots of people making tools (both software and plugins) for what we might call the open-source information management ecosystem, but far fewer people taking a big-picture view and working out how to use these tools to make effective workflows.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40313143

Re: Show HN: I built an Obsidian plugin to create notes from BibTeX

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Post by JonChesterfield »

ilrwbwrkhv wrote: post #10
elric wrote: post #5

So happy to see that Obsidian has a thriving plugin ecosystem. Been considering creating an Obsidian plugin as an excuse to learn typescript, but every time I wonder whether a plugin for $foo exists, the answer turns out to be yes.

So Obsidian gets all the benefits of a thriving ecosystem, makes a lot more money and the plugin creators get none of the benefits? It's a bit unfair isn't it?

Seems totally legitimate to me. The plugin creater has a superb distributed editor with lots of capability that they choose to add to.

I note that obsidian itself is free. I pay for the built-in sync as that's cheaper than implementing it myself, and there are other paths to sending the developers money, but they're all optional.

Re: Show HN: I built an Obsidian plugin to create notes from BibTeX

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Post by kouru225 »

elric wrote: post #5

So happy to see that Obsidian has a thriving plugin ecosystem. Been considering creating an Obsidian plugin as an excuse to learn typescript, but every time I wonder whether a plugin for $foo exists, the answer turns out to be yes.

I’ve been wanting an obsidian plug-in that deprecates text and it doesn’t exist.

Simple idea: mark entire notes or portions of notes as “deprecated” and then have a toggle button that shows/hides deprecated text.

Re: Show HN: I built an Obsidian plugin to create notes from BibTeX

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Post by evolve2k »

growingkittens wrote: post #7
evolve2k wrote: post #3

Great to see this. I’m using better-bibtex and the citation plugin currently in an extended workflow I’m calling the Obsidian Academic Stack. Would love to know if your plugin could enhance the stack. What is the Obsidian Academic Stack? I’ve been working on a stack which allows a workflow from Zotero > Obsidian > Pandoc > Word (with proper citations). The idea being that essays and thesis can be written using Obsida…

Thank you very much for this guide. I don't know if this falls under your project scope, but I have a suggestion. By default, Obsidian saves links in notes using the "shortest path" , which reduces compatibility: the links don't work in anything but Obsidian. I found two plugins that manage relative links: https://github.com/val3344/obsidian-update-relative-links https://github.com/dy-sh/obsidian-consistent-attachmen…

Thanks. I’m wondering if this is somewhat related to the embedding images issue I discuss. Seems like obsidian was doing weird path reference logic. Could you give the ‘Embeds your images’ section of my README a read and see if you think it’s related.

Happy to include but could you unpack the problem / solution a bit more cause I mostly get it but not fully there.

Re: Show HN: I built an Obsidian plugin to create notes from BibTeX

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Post by evolve2k »

evolve2k wrote: post #15
growingkittens wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you very much for this guide. I don't know if this falls under your project scope, but I have a suggestion. By default, Obsidian saves links in notes using the "shortest path" , which reduces compatibility: the links don't work in anything but Obsidian. I found two plugins that manage relative links: https://github.com/val3344/obsidian-update-relative-links https://github.com/dy-sh/obsidian-consistent-attachmen…

Thanks. I’m wondering if this is somewhat related to the embedding images issue I discuss. Seems like obsidian was doing weird path reference logic. Could you give the ‘Embeds your images’ section of my README a read and see if you think it’s related. Happy to include but could you unpack the problem / solution a bit more cause I mostly get it but not fully there.

I've had a bit of a read, seems a key benefit is if you want to host your markdown library into say Github or onto the web.

Adding one of these "Consistent Attachments and Links" libraries makes the links more explicit and hence more portable.

I think that's pretty desirable, I'll add a discussion on my project, feel free to raise other topics in discussion any time folks.

https://github.com/evolve2k/obsidian-pandoc-academic-word-do...

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