Want to get your hands on my Obsidian templates, Custom CSS, and Mermaid Diagram code? 👉🏻️bryanjenkstech.ck.page/d4ec0713d5 00:00 Intro 00:11 Premise 02:51 forum.obsidian.md/t/zotero-best-practices/164/57 04:05 Start with installing Zotero 04:55 Downloading a Research Paper with Zotero 05:32 Downloading a paper with the chrome extention 08:18 Installing a paper with a DOI 09:32 Getting the Extentions setup in zotero 10:17 github.com/tallguyjenks?tab=stars&q=&q=zotero 10:45 Downloading the plugin files 11:32 Installing the Plugins 12:09 The Workflow in action 14:20 Zotfile to extract annotations 15:08 MDNotes for the conversion of Rich Text format to Markdown notes 15:51 Getting the markdown notes into Obsidian 17:10 The Zotero URI to the document source 17:30 Opening a link to an exact note location in the pdf source 18:17 Zotero URI links similar to Obsidian URI links 19:43 Why i enjoy this workflow 21:11 Zot Hero with Alfred App on MacOS 22:47 Closing 23:29 Outro

@achilleskaysen9179

3 жыл бұрын

instablaster...

I'm thinking of doing my PhD just because of this video!

@BryanJenks

3 жыл бұрын

That's awesome! I'm glad you enjoyed the video so much :)

This is AWESOME! I love this workflow, I'm a physics bachelor and this will be a total lifesaver 💜 at last having a neat academic database, can't thank you enough! Keep up the great work!

@BryanJenks

3 жыл бұрын

You're so welcome! Im glad it's helpful :)

Outstanding tutorial Bryan, this is just what I’ve been looking for. Thank you! Please do more on your Zotero - Obsidian workflow. These apps compliment each other so well and I love that they’re free and community driven. 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

@BryanJenks

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, will do! Really looking forward to the beta working out the kinks or the plugins catching up so the exports from the Beta's PDF annotator supports the Zotero URI links

@stephenduff1917

3 жыл бұрын

@@BryanJenks out of interest, what parts of this work from Endnote?

Man you really broaden my horizon! One of the best tutorials I've ever found on how to use Zotero and Obsidian together. ~

@BryanJenks

3 жыл бұрын

Awesome! I'm Glad you found it so helpful! :)

INSANE! You’ve just changed my life. Can’t thank you enough.

@BryanJenks

3 жыл бұрын

🙌

@OwenVachell

3 жыл бұрын

@@BryanJenks do you know a good iPad app that will integrate well with this workflow? My annotation weapon of choice is. my iPad. I've tried PDF viewer, PDF Expert, the native Apple Preview app, Apple Books, GoodReader. None of them seem to save my annotations to the original file, and therefore with Zotero (NB: The PDF in question is a linked file in Zotero, not a copy of)

@BryanJenks

3 жыл бұрын

@@OwenVachell yep i have the ipad and zotero workflow video planned very shortly and it will work off of the same files not duplicates

@OwenVachell

3 жыл бұрын

@@BryanJenks awesome! Can’t come soon enough. Thanks so much for the awesome advice on this channel.

@BryanJenks

3 жыл бұрын

@@OwenVachell glad you find it helpfl!

Thank you so much for your super helpful instruction about the smooth workflow between Zotero and Obsidian. This is the best presentation I have seen so far on KZread.

@BryanJenks

Жыл бұрын

thank you! check out the latest up to date version that is more accurate :)

OMG. This was insane. I never took notes inschool and college and have always regretted it, note taking is not my thing only, now I am starting my PhD journey and was looking for something like obsedian, found obsidian and cried for a month cz could not do anything with it....watched 25 hrs of youtube videos on obsidian but atlast found this and it changed my life bro............. thanks so much.. so so much. watched this 16 mins video for two hours...hahahaha

@BryanJenks

3 жыл бұрын

Glad the video helped! :D

I've been using and promoting Zotero for years, I'm only nine minutes into the video and ALREADY I'm learning stuff I didn't know. What a kick!

@BryanJenks

Жыл бұрын

always more to learn!

Another great video Bryan! Very helpful and practical content. Also greatly appreciate you include a timeline with you video. I just copy the video link and timeline into Obsidian in markdown format and I can then I can just click on a time stamp link to revise any segment whenever I like.

@BryanJenks

3 жыл бұрын

My pleasure! makes it easy to not waste others time :)

Thank you, Bryan. This video is just AMAZING. You have no idea how much this helped me.

@BryanJenks

3 жыл бұрын

You're very welcome! Im so glad it's helped :)

Great video my dude. Keep it up. Really helped me a lot because I always have trouble organizing my research.

@BryanJenks

3 жыл бұрын

Glad to hear it! I'm glad i could help :D

Always... ... 🐄 Thanks for this - will be slicing this into my work flow - with Z and O via Chrome, nicely done.

@BryanJenks

3 жыл бұрын

🐄 Awesome! Glad you found some value in this! :)

Hey Bryan, Thanks for this video as someone new to Zetro and obsidian. It helped me a lot to efficiently use it for my research. More power to you!.

@BryanJenks

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Couldn't find an option to like the video twice so bought you a coffee 😁 Many thanks for such informative video!

@BryanJenks

3 жыл бұрын

So nice of you! thank you! :))

Incredible! Really helpful. Thank you.

@BryanJenks

2 жыл бұрын

My pleasure!

Omg, this channel is the find of the week

@BryanJenks

Жыл бұрын

glad you think so!

This is great! Thanks a gazillion Bryan.

@BryanJenks

3 жыл бұрын

You are most welcome!

🎉 So so awesome!! I’m going to do this. Thank you.

@BryanJenks

Жыл бұрын

🥰

Thanks! Really helpful as I am just getting started with Obsidian and Zotero

@BryanJenks

2 жыл бұрын

hope it was helpful!

Extremely useful. This Boomer is learning a lot from you!

@BryanJenks

3 жыл бұрын

HAHA I'm glad i can teach you something helpful and useful :)

In zotero 6 the "extract annotations" function of zotfile has been replaced by a native zotero function called "add note from annotation"

@joaobraz7575

Жыл бұрын

Apparently, Mdnotes plugin does not work properly with Zotero native annotation to plain text converter. I had to downgrade to Zotero 5 to make it work. Do you confirm this, Jenks?

@BryanJenks

Жыл бұрын

yeah, zotero 6 wrecks the workflow

@otavioalves813

Жыл бұрын

@@joaobraz7575 Como você fez o downgrade para o Zotero 5? Onde baixa?

Thank you so much! This solved a huge problem for me.

@BryanJenks

3 жыл бұрын

You're welcome! Glad to hear it was so helpful!

Nice content man! You gave me some inspirations on how to set up my workflow. Anyway, are you planning to upload a video talking about your Obsidian to Anki workflow? I’m really curious to see how your workflow is set up and how your Anki looks like. Cheers mate!

@BryanJenks

3 жыл бұрын

Im glad my content has been helpful! I actually haven't gotten into the habbit of using the Obsidian to Anki script/workflow because i actually enjoy anki by itself and dont put non-curated material into my vault, meaning im not taking notes like in a class and then picking what material to remember and then putting that material into the document to be pulled by the script. i manage anki separately. Though the video would be a good topic. I'll add it to my queue. i got a lot ahead of it though but it will come eventually :)

Really nice. The interface on a PC looks a little different to this but there was enough information in the video for me to work it out so thanks for sharing.

@BryanJenks

2 жыл бұрын

im glad!

@davethinkingsystems

2 жыл бұрын

@@BryanJenks in case anyone else is interested, on the PC when I try and create a notes file, I right click on "Container" (or whatever its called) and I get an option "Add note from annotation" in the top level context menu, I don't have to go down into the lower level menu which you have to on the Mac. I click on this and a note appears. I then right click on the note and I get an option "export note", I click on this and it gives me the option to export to markdown. This option allows me to create a markdown file which I can then just copy the contents of into obsidian :-) Very good. I really like this because it means I can ark up pdf books with notes and drop the notes into obsidian and then refer back to the place relevant to the note. Cheers for this. I have to say this video and your big 21 workflow one has changed the way I interact with my computer while studying. Really grateful mate, thanks

Phenomenal workflow, very well explained. Excellent job!

@BryanJenks

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you :)

You are a lifesaver! Thank you so much for this helpful video.

@BryanJenks

2 жыл бұрын

Glad it helped!

I was using Zotero for so long and then switched to Papers because I could not insert links in other apps. This combination is so good! Wish I knew it earlier........,.,.....

@BryanJenks

3 жыл бұрын

sorry it came so late!

@vitokonte

3 жыл бұрын

@@BryanJenks I am switching to this setup now haha!

Incredibly helpful, thanks so much!

@BryanJenks

2 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Pow! Life=Changed. Cheers Bryan, this is ace.

@BryanJenks

3 жыл бұрын

:)

Outstanding. Super useful info for research and learning.

@BryanJenks

2 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

nice video. I've actually adopted this workflow from you. For some of us, non-IT (me exposing my ignorance publicly), find some of these concepts a little complicated, but you've got a way of simplifying them. Thanks. Only don't go so fast hehe..

@BryanJenks

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the suggestion :)

@ceec165

2 жыл бұрын

Eric, you can slow down the video (or speed it up) by clicking on the ... (Settings on the top right of the video) 😉

this was verrry helpful thank you!

@BryanJenks

2 жыл бұрын

My pleasure!

"Zotero, you know where this is, give it to me! Awesome." Bryan Jenks, 2021.

@BryanJenks

Жыл бұрын

LOL

Thank you so much for the video and the explanations, it is very inspiring

@BryanJenks

2 жыл бұрын

❤

THIS IS AWESOME!! THANKS BRYAN

@BryanJenks

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you like it!

Seems you can now do all this without any addons, just select "Add Note from Annotations" which will export the highlights and notes. You can then export this by right-clicking on the new folder that appeared and select "Export Note". Make sure markdown is selected, and choose whether you want the Zotero links or not. Then you can just copy and paste the contents of the resultant file into obsidian.

@BryanJenks

Жыл бұрын

i dont like to click that much xD

This is fantastic!

@BryanJenks

3 жыл бұрын

awesome!

Loved it, thank you very much! Really useful, will share with friends :)

@BryanJenks

3 жыл бұрын

Awesome, thank you!

Thank you so much for sharing. It is beneficial.

@BryanJenks

3 жыл бұрын

You are so welcome!

This is Madlad Level, thank you very much mate 😱❤

@BryanJenks

3 жыл бұрын

glad you enjoyed it :)

Excellent video!!! Really helpful!!! I have question related also do article’s citations (more in the sense of bibliometrics)... Let's suppose you’re conducting a SLR (Systematic Literature Review), and there you are building your bibliographic database: collecting, analyzing (bibliometrics) and reviewing key articles related to your research theme (question). Especially for the second step (bibliometric analysis), it’s very important to have, for every single article you collect, well identified and organized bibliometric information such as: 1) bibliographic citations (number of citations, but also the identification - DOI/ author's name - of all other articles which have cited each article composing your bibliographic database); 2) bibliographic references (number of references but also the identification - DOI/ author's name - of all other articles which have been cited by each and every article within your database). This will allow you to perform (using other softwares) a bunch of interesting analysis, for instance: “CNA” (Citation Network Analysis), among others. Does Zotero also organize/ store such kind of information (bibliometrics) for to each single article of a created collection? If so… Does it do it automatically or does it need to be input/ organized manually? If not... Is there a "Plug-in" capable of adding such functionality to Zotero?

@BryanJenks

3 жыл бұрын

Lol got at you on linkedin

Respect, please keep it going

@BryanJenks

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! :)

17:49 is amazing.

@BryanJenks

3 жыл бұрын

glad you think so :)

once again, excellent video

@BryanJenks

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks you! Glad you enjoyed it :D

OK, I see what I've been doing wrong this whole time, I never said "knock knock" to my Zotero, I just rudely barge in and demand files. No wonder it hates me! Seriously though thank you for this awesome video!

@BryanJenks

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, you need to at least buy Zotero dinner first before you start trying to move files in and out of it. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) glad you like the video! :)

@emmaknightley

3 жыл бұрын

@@BryanJenks 😂

Bryan thanks for all the work you put in to make this video. I made it to the point where you copy and paste the markdown script to an obsidian page. I am able to paste the plain text, but could not get the link which will direct me to that particular page in a PDF where I made the note (which I think is the crux of what made this video stand out among other great things you covered here). I have Zotfile and MD notes on Zotero, and has just now plugged in "Citation" and "Zotero Integration" on Obsedian. To add, I am on Zotero 6. I can see that Zotero could have caused an uproar to the workflow, but I was not sure as to whether my problem had to do with the version update or it was just me that who could not figure out how to properly set up on Obsedian (This is my Day 1 on Obsedian). If you could help, I would highly appreciate it. Many thanks in advance. + So, what I differed from you were 16:16 I did not have a template to put it up as you did 16:35 I did not have a text edit key on my Obsedian set up 16:52 I do not have links that will lead to the PDFs (and therefore notes in them) 17:20 I want to open it like this but I still have not figured out how to do so I really wonder what is causing the problem. Wondering whether it has to do with what I do with Obsidian or Zotero.

@BryanJenks

Жыл бұрын

updated zotero workflow video coming soon, Zotero 6 broke the workflow with Zotfile

@youtube_research

Жыл бұрын

@@BryanJenks Awesome. I will be waiting for it.

@tom22333

Жыл бұрын

@@BryanJenks is this out yet?

This really helped me with my stage 4 diebetus

@BryanJenks

3 жыл бұрын

Not sure how but that’s cool 😅

Amazing! So good! Thank you!!!

@BryanJenks

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you like it!

Thanks for explaining this! One thing I wonder: what you showed was *first* reading and annotating one paper and *then* use it in obsidian for further processing. What happens if I go back to the paper in zotero and add some more annotations which I then also want to use in obsidian? I suspect that there is no way in zotero to export only those notes that havn't previously been exported, right? So I would have to export all of them again. If I then import the new export into obsidion I will have duplicates. Not that it's necessarily a big deal to have duplicates, but it becomes even trickier when you work with multiple papers. My ideal would be to have all my zotero annotations (from all papers) accessible in obsidian. So I can I do one big export for and import into obsidian, right? But now assume that you take some new notes in Zoterao. Either on an new paper or on a previously annotatde one. In order not to lose track of those changes in Obsidian, I would have to re-import the relevant annotations pretty soon. And that's not exatly the kind of stuff I want to be doing. Long story short: do you have any ideas for a more automated way of syncing between the two programs?

@BryanJenks

3 жыл бұрын

a very simple idea would be to have your exported annotations in the markdown file added to your vault remain untouched. if you update your Zotero annotations and export them again then the file contents of the original notes can be overridden and always updated. but for the notes/further processing, you perform on those extracted annotations, in THOSE precipitate notes, if you reference the name of the literature note with a link then the files will always remain linked and you can find all the notes you yourself took on the exported content even if the exported file is completely overridden and updated. This way you can easy keep things current but also retain the linkage to your existing notes and create more over time. Good question.

@christophhaug

3 жыл бұрын

This sounds great! "Don't touch the exported files!" makes perfect sense! Now I just need to find a way of automating/scripting the export. Should be possible, even when you're on Windows with no Alfred to assist ypu...

I know this is old, but did you consider automating the process of Zotero to Obsidian? Even filling out the basic author details.

@BryanJenks

2 жыл бұрын

i set it up not too long ago, when i get back to reading and annotating more papers i'll likely make it even more robust and make a video about it

You know if you copy and paste the note from zotero it copies the hyperlink as well? You don’t necessarily need MD notes plug-in. This is useful if you don’t want to copy all highlights but only those you are selecting for your bibliographic note for more atomic and conscious notes.

@BryanJenks

3 жыл бұрын

👀

hi bryan! i'm learning about obsidian and your channel has been incredibly helpful so far. do you have a workflow for extracting kindle notes + highlights into zotero and obsidian?

@BryanJenks

3 жыл бұрын

i just got a kindle myself so ill be working on that front sometime soon :)

Thank you so much

@BryanJenks

3 жыл бұрын

You're most welcome! :)

Omg dude. Thank you so much!

@BryanJenks

3 жыл бұрын

Glad I could help!

thank you so much

@BryanJenks

Жыл бұрын

My pleasure!

Superb!

@BryanJenks

3 жыл бұрын

Im glad you enjoyed the video! thank you for being here! :)

Hey @Bryan, thanks for explaining this workflow! Wondering if you've found a way to export little screenshots or selected images from papers? I'm constantly needed to refer to a map or a chart, things that don't translate well (or at all) in plain text. It would be amazing to have an annotation in this workflow that grabs an image from the document.

@BryanJenks

3 жыл бұрын

Responded in discord :)

Great video!

@BryanJenks

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Great workflow! Usefull for medical doctors! Question: which app do you use for the schematics of the workflow, it look’s really neat. 🐄 moooo

@BryanJenks

3 жыл бұрын

🐄 mooooooo It’s mermaid.js in a code block in obsidian I have a video on just mermaid on my channel too!

many thanks

@BryanJenks

3 жыл бұрын

my pleasure :)

Stunning tutorial. Have you ever thought to use other software to comment .pdf like Liquidtext?

@BryanJenks

3 жыл бұрын

i havent heard of that one! i'll check it out, what do you like about it?

@AlessandroCapobianco

3 жыл бұрын

@@BryanJenks The app allows you to manage in a very smooth way the comments. You can even connect comments between different documents.

@BryanJenks

3 жыл бұрын

@@AlessandroCapobianco thats neat, kinda like a network of annotations between the documents!

Great！thanks bro！

@BryanJenks

3 жыл бұрын

No problem 👍

You are learning R too. Today I had quiz for my Statistics lab, couldn't answer some questions properly😔

@BryanJenks

3 жыл бұрын

You got this!

Great video! Do you know how to create citations within Obsidian that are linked to Zotero, and perhaps even a bibliography generator, similar to the integration of Zotero and Word? That would be very useful when constructing essays and articles.

@BryanJenks

3 жыл бұрын

The exported content from the workflow will give you links back to the documents, but for bibliography generation, i just use Zotero, and you could also take advantage of the zot-hero alfred workflow. a hacky idea would be to just use a markdown link with your citation text and a Zotero URL this worked for tidy data in my vault: [Wickham, Hadley. “Tidy Data.” Journal of Statistical Software 59, no. 10 (August 2014). doi.org/10.18637/jss.v059.i10.](zotero://open-pdf/library/items/28GS4KL8) it's a little extra work to set up, but if done as you got and not doing a giant export it may be more feasible

Hi Bryan, I'm working through your workflow and I hit a snag right off. Here are my steps: - Selected a web page in my browser - Printed it to a PDF - Dragged the PDF into Zotero folder - Double clicked it and it opened in Foxit reader - Highlighted text and added a note - Closed and saved the Foxit File - (Double clicked in Zotero to be sure that it would open my annotated file. It did.) - Selected "extract annotations - MESSAGE BOX in lower right. Zotfile: extracting annotations. ERROR: "Attachments skipped because they are top-level items, snapshots, or the file does not exist." I'm guessing that there is some problem creating a PDF by printing to a PDF? Is there a better way to capture a web page? I saw you using a plugin to get a PDF file living on a web page. I did not see what attachment that was ... and, in any case, what I'm trying to do is get the web page itself from the website. Do you have any thoughts to share that might help me move on past this glitch? Thanks for any help you might be able to provide.

@BryanJenks

3 жыл бұрын

this type of debugging is better done here: github.com/BryanJenksCommunity/FAQ/discussions

amazing 👍

@BryanJenks

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Just insane💯🌠✨

@BryanJenks

3 жыл бұрын

🙌🏻️

This is very helpful Bryan. This is a lifesaver for new users like me. Anyway, how do you put direct quotation to box like in 18:06?

@BryanJenks

Жыл бұрын

the quote syntax in markdown "> this is a quote"

@LoupSauvage

Жыл бұрын

@@BryanJenks Thank you Bryan. It seems that the updated version of Zotero doesn't work like your tutorial anymore, as it doesn't export the md with the > character before any quote. Thank you anyway.

Very nice, thank you. Is there an easy way to automatically update the annotations?

@BryanJenks

2 жыл бұрын

Not that I know of

@dankort

2 жыл бұрын

@@BryanJenks Thanks for your swift reply

Nice video Bryan. One question. I am not into academic research or anything like that. Is there any tool that does similar work as Zotero, but for general PDFs? Like if I can just highlight PDF docs and then export it as markdown. Is there any tool that you recommend?

@BryanJenks

3 жыл бұрын

i havent used any other method to markup and extract annotations from PDF's other than this workflow. But you dont need to be an academic touse Zotero so the workflow could work just the same for you :)

I have a trivial query. Which tool are you using to highlight and annotate PDFs. Is it a Mac only tool?

@BryanJenks

3 жыл бұрын

i responded on your other comment but its the default MacOS pdf viewer called 'Preview'

Thanks for the great tip! Now I don't have to type everything in my notes! I'm at 2023 and zotero actually offers the pdf reader and note export natively so no need for the plug ins, but I wonder how did you get those quotation blocks 16:41? Is that some theme or custom CSS or something? Mine after importing are in quotation marks and not in > quote blocks, and they're indistinguishable from the notes I made.

@BryanJenks

Жыл бұрын

new up to date video on all of this is coming very soon, this video is outdated

Hey could someone tell me if this is working right now? Cause Zotfile doesn´t show me the options, that Bryan had in the video, like to extract the annotations.

@BryanJenks

2 жыл бұрын

Zotero 6 release broke the workflow, video update coming

Hi Brian! I followed your advice a while ago and it's great! However, now that Obsidian released the properties my literature notes template is not working. Do you know how to fix it? I'm trying to see if you have another video about this. Thank you!!

@BryanJenks

4 ай бұрын

What about it is not working? The properties just take over for YAML so the templates shouldn’t really be affected

Thanks for the video. Quick question.. What is the benefit of moving notes to Obsidian. Zotero (albeit primarily a reference manager and not a note-taking software) has excellent note searchability, relating function and tagging ability. I haven't used Obsidian yet, but doesn't Zotero provide similar cataloging, aside from the Graph view? Thanks.

@BryanJenks

Жыл бұрын

bidirectional linking and unlinked mentions plus more powerful query tooling is available. its no contest, obsidian dominates

@TheJoshtheboss

Жыл бұрын

@@BryanJenks Thanks.

This is really cool, thank you. Also, first time I'm seeing templates and it looks super interesting (will watch your video on them next!). I was wondering though, is there any way to cite papers in Obsidian via Zotero? I'm thinking where/how to process some general notes that I tend to have on a certain paper, in addition to comments on specific parts. I would like to eventually have both comment/highlight notes and those general notes in one place (e.g., connected in Obsidian). Any thoughts?

@BryanJenks

3 жыл бұрын

theres a plugin for it that uses zotfile ( i think ) to export an updated CSL JSON file so you can live cite papers

Hey, I just discovered your channel. Thanks for the great content. Did you migrate your vimwiki workflow to obsidian?

@BryanJenks

3 жыл бұрын

yes! i put my whole vimwiki into obsidian

@andresorrego6778

3 жыл бұрын

@@BryanJenks I'll give it a try and see your videos. Thanks!

@BryanJenks

3 жыл бұрын

Welcome to the party :)

I have been using Zotero for a while but now for some reason when i try to open a PDF it always says it is an unsupported format. It opens in PDF expert but when I change the default to Zotero it's a no-go. Any advice ?

@BryanJenks

3 жыл бұрын

the pdf should be opening in a pdf viewer program, Zotero is not a pdf viewer program, it is a reference manager that holds your files, its hard to debug this way but i it sounds like you're trying to open the pdf to be viewed in Zotero, this is not possible, it is not like Mendeley in that respect, the pdf's will open in a pdf viewing program like Preview, Acrobat, Sumatra, Zathura, etc. hope this helps :)

It looks to me at 5:09 you are in zotero's desktop version because the File, Edit, View, etc menu items are showing. These menu items DO NOT show in the web version of zotero. RR support informed me that RR does not connect to the desktop. What's going on here?

@BryanJenks

2 жыл бұрын

RR connects to the zotero sync library i think?

Loved the video! tks a lot! Im just having trouble with the pdf editing, when do you open it, does it happen in the own Zotero program?

@BryanJenks

3 жыл бұрын

depends on if you're using the beta or prior version

Hi Bryan, I was struggling with research literature management and this is just what I need. There is only one caveat though as of now mdnotes is not compatible with the newest zotero version. Do you know anything about this, are they working on it? Is there any workaround? Thank you, always nice to see your workflows.

@violetalondono3205

2 жыл бұрын

Hello!! look here, there is the solution forums.zotero.org/discussion/comment/405736#Comment_405736

@BryanJenks

2 жыл бұрын

new video coming soon!

Any chance you can show something about the Zotero OCR plugin and how it works? Or if you have another way of OCR'ing a PDF that retains the image of a scanned book, that would be great! Or any other suggestions you would have on going about that process. Lastly, if you haven't seen the Better BibTex plugin for Zotero, that looks quite useful. Thanks!

@BryanJenks

3 жыл бұрын

never used the OCR plugin. got a link? i use better BibTex!

@chinoquant

3 жыл бұрын

@@BryanJenks github.com/UB-Mannheim/zotero-ocr this link is from the zotero plugin page. I haven't tried because it looks a little complex to set up...

Thanks for the tutorial @BryanJenksTech! Does it mean that annotations export is possible only when PDFs are stored in Zotero (not just linked to an external directory with PDFs)? The reason why I am asking this is I don't have the Export Annotations option in my Zotero (Zotfile installed).

@polinafebruary

Жыл бұрын

Solved: in Zotero 6, Zotero introduced default option to extract annotations (without ZotFile)

@BryanJenks

Жыл бұрын

you got it :) no zotfile! check out my latest video on the topic

Hi, really useful tutorial. Many thanks! Background: When I highlight text, many times I only highlight sentences or parts of sentences which read together make up an idea (ie., I don't highlight the fluff). When this is exported, each sentence (or part) is a quotation, which usually doesn't make sense on its own. Also, I prefer it to read as a single summary text, not a bunch of quotations. Therefore, I edit the export text in Obsidian. However, it is really laborious to delete each redundant link, quotation mark etc. Question: is there any way to streamline this tidying up? Not the actual text composition, but removing all the links, etc. Thanks again.

@BryanJenks

3 жыл бұрын

There is definitely a way to modify the output of the MDNotes markdown extraction, i personally havent done it because i like the format, but there's more details in the forum post about the workflow here: forum.obsidian.md/t/zotero-best-practices/164/57 :)

@shenry25

3 жыл бұрын

@@BryanJenks it is all question of asking the eight people! 😊Thanks very much that link is helpful.

Noice! 🐄

@BryanJenks

2 жыл бұрын

:D 🐄️

Thanks for the video! I have an issue with Extracting the annotations. I get an error that says, "Attachments skipped because they are top-level items, snapshots, or the file does not exist." What could the issue be?

@GabrielRodrigues-qw1qq

3 жыл бұрын

Right click -> Create parent item :D

@kl2920

3 жыл бұрын

@@GabrielRodrigues-qw1qq Thanks so much! It worked :D

@BryanJenks

3 жыл бұрын

interesting that everyone seems to be encountering this issue, i've never had it occur for me.. but glad you all found a solution for others to use to!

I feel like Im in a rabbit hole with lots of tunnels

@BryanJenks

2 жыл бұрын

🤣

i tried everything to the T but when i paste in obsidian there are o links back to zoroto documents

@BryanJenks

Жыл бұрын

This video is out of date, next Monday latest updated video is dropping on the workflow ✅

Hi there! I am not getting the links to the PDF when I export the annotations.

@BryanJenks

Жыл бұрын

Zotero 6 no longer produces them with zotfile, see the more recent zotero videos

Hi, Bryan. I am very interested in your Mdnotes template, but I don't know how to set it. It looks like different from Obsidian templates. Could you share the Mdnotes template? Thank you! 🙏

@BryanJenks

2 жыл бұрын

i only just set them up the other day and never shown them on video before, so you're seeing the defaults actually that or you're talking about my normal templates i use in which case you can get a copy of them by signing up to my newsletter :)

This functionality is now available in Zotera 6 without needing to add any plugins! Just found this video explaining it: kzread.info/dash/bejne/qmSe1sSmgdHdndo.html

@BryanJenks

2 жыл бұрын

ill have to check it out, been getting a lot of questions about the workflow after the update

@jeffwilson7475

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! The video helped explain the workflow with the new update.

I do not have the option to extract annotations when I right click on the PDF. When I go to 'Manage Attatchment' I only have the options of 'Rename and Move' & 'Get Table of Contents'.. I have Zotfile installed. Not sure if it's a Windows issue or something has changed with Zotero/Zotfile. Anyone else had an issue with this?

@BryanJenks

2 жыл бұрын

zotero 6 threw a big wrench into this workflow >.>

Just updated Zotero 6 but the add-on mdnotes is not compatible with it, any suggestions? Thank you!!!

@BryanJenks

2 жыл бұрын

revert until it is, it just still isnt compatible

Hi Bryan! Great video. I use windows and I’m worried about what happens if I loose my Zotero local files. Will my files still be saved in the Zotero cloud?

@BryanJenks

Жыл бұрын

Yes it will

Thank you very much Bryan, it's awesome! I have only a doubt: what if have i to switch PC? The Zotero's links go doesn't work anymore, right? Is there a solution? Thank you very much

@BryanJenks

2 жыл бұрын

the URI links should work regardless of system

@aleargo8137

2 жыл бұрын

@@BryanJenks thank you very much

Installed Zotfile (as per your instruction). However, I am not getting "extract annotation" option under "manage attachmments." [I have only two options: 1) rename and move 2) get table of contents]. Help!

@BryanJenks

2 жыл бұрын

zotero 6 threw a big wrench into this workflow >.>

@nutube6291

2 жыл бұрын

@@BryanJenks Yes, I've found that out recently. Thanks for the reply.

@seol1500

2 жыл бұрын

@@BryanJenks Can you share your latest workflow with zotero please?

let's say you export the annotations and put them in an obsidian note. what happens when you change the annotations on the pdf using zotero - do they get updated on you obsidian note or you have to do the whole process again, that is, it's a static process, it does not update the new annotations... is it so?

@BryanJenks

3 жыл бұрын

its a one way operation. they're not linked at all as the annotations are extracted to a plain text format

I don't have the option to export the zotero note to markdown (15.17) Any idea?

@BryanJenks

3 жыл бұрын

Do you have both the zotfile, and mdnotes plugins installed? are the pdf's actually inside the zotero database and not just loose in your file system? if none of these fixed it, consider contributing to this issue so we can help others with the answers we find: github.com/BryanJenksCommunity/FAQ/issues/11

@ovidiubunea3821

3 жыл бұрын

@@BryanJenks Great, thank you! I did not have mdnotes installed. Now is ok!

@BryanJenks

3 жыл бұрын

@@ovidiubunea3821 awesome!

Hi, this is a great video, I really appreciate it. Do you know what might be the reason I can't see the menu you see when trying to export a Zotero note to markdown? It looks like I didn't installed md notes, but I did. Thanks again!

@BryanJenks

2 жыл бұрын

Did you also install zotfile?

@ventana100

2 жыл бұрын

@@BryanJenks Yes, I did and it works with no problems :-/