Thread by @Artifexx

Tutorial: Using @obsdmd for notes AND as a reference manager (and even replace @zotero).

Why?

☝️Keeping your interlinked notes, annotations and PDFs in one place is incredibly powerful when you want to write and publish fast!

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1. Create a note and name it in your usual citation style. e.g. "Connell 1964". Use a template where you include the DOI at the top. Here is an example

2. Scroll down to the bottom of the note and use the "Inset Attachment" command. (Hit ctrl/⌘ + P and type in "Insert Attachment")

Now select the file you have downloaded to embed it directly into the note.

Pro Tip: Assign a Hotkey to "Insert Attachment" to use it instantly.

3. Install the dataview plugin if you don't have it. It is complicated to use, but all you have to do is install it for now.

Go to Settings > Community Plugins and click "Browse"

Then select "dataview"

4. Now let's write a text citing those papers from step 1. Here is an example where I cite two papers. The one from before and another one.

5. At the bottom of this note, we will embed a small snippet of code. It will pull all the papers we cited here and print them into a neat table:

```dataview
TABLE DOI FROM outgoing([[]]) AND "1️⃣ Primary Sources"
```

6. As you have seen in the previous video I can copy paste the used DOIs. To create the final citations you need go to bibtex.com/c/doi-to-bibte… and paste the list there.

We have essentially replaced Zotero with Obsidian! Minus this one last step - and I have a feeling someone might make a plugin for it...

Check out my system of note taking for academia that goes with it:

Tutorials like this take quite a while to make - If you enjoyed it you can support me by retweeting the first tweet in this thread.

So Zotero or Obsidian, what do you think?