#Moing bibdesk library to pdf

for every new item, one has to enter it in Zotero (or the software managing the bibliography), export the library, reimport in Obsidian (I have a huge library, so I don’t want to add items I will use in a single note in Obsidian only, and the import/export is really slow).

#Moing bibdesk library to pdf

rely on normal internal links, so not convenient (appears just as a link, without brackets or anything to show it is a citation, and also information is lost in PDF export).setup its own template (but follows Pandoc, which is good).rely on an external bibliography file (bibtex or csl-json).Let me discuss why the plugin obsidian-citation has problems here: uniformize how citations are displayed (both in Markdown preview and PDF export).to not rely on external and specific tools (as pointed in this post).There are several motivations to have a built-in mechanism:

For example, I want to refer to a discussion, a seminar or to some book, but without creating an entry in Zotero nor a dedicated Obsidian note for the reasons below. Second, for more general topics and here the plugin is less useful. First, to take notes on what I am reading for my research – for this, the plugin obsidian-citation-plugin is a really promising start since it implements exactly the features I would need in this context. I am using a lot of citations in two different contexts. I also want to stress that what I will describe can useful well beyond academia and does not rely on any external software or format. I think that it should be a core feature / plugin because I fear that plugins will not implement citations consistently. It would be useful if Obsidian could implement a basic mechanism for citing references, which can then be extended with plugins.