Creating nice markdown exports with annotations
I used to use MDnotes for exporting citations to Obsidian, and I'm trying to recover similar operation in v6.I'd like to be able to have notes that I export that include all the bibliographic information and highlights from the PDF.At the moment, I can
- do a 'Create note from Annotations' command to make an annotations note
- do a MDnotes -> Create full export note to get the markdown file out.
It works, but there are a couple of issues:
- the note from annotations is not kept updated!if I make a new one, they are both updated, so I have to delete the previous one
- The MDnotes annotation template doesn't allow for newlines, so all the annotations run together
- I miss the ability to have the annotations link back to the source of the annotation - is there any chance of having these tags link back to the original source
Also - is this still the right way to do things?188BET靠谱吗I've seen the Zotero Desktop Connector, but I was hoping not to have to run something else.I've also seen references to native Markdown export, but I can't see a way to do that - it's not in the export formats AFAICT.
Thanks!
- do a 'Create note from Annotations' command to make an annotations note
- do a MDnotes -> Create full export note to get the markdown file out.
It works, but there are a couple of issues:
- the note from annotations is not kept updated!if I make a new one, they are both updated, so I have to delete the previous one
- The MDnotes annotation template doesn't allow for newlines, so all the annotations run together
- I miss the ability to have the annotations link back to the source of the annotation - is there any chance of having these tags link back to the original source
Also - is this still the right way to do things?188BET靠谱吗I've seen the Zotero Desktop Connector, but I was hoping not to have to run something else.I've also seen references to native Markdown export, but I can't see a way to do that - it's not in the export formats AFAICT.
Thanks!
188BET靠谱吗You could export the notes to markdown(including images, links, and math) and keep the .md files in sync with the latest version of Zotero notes.Check the syncing notes in File -> Better Notes Sync Manager.
It doesn't auto-update an external file, though.
I'll try 6.0.11 and see if that makes a difference - checking for updates hadn't flagged that there was a new version.
Edit - nope, still nothing: https://imagebin.ca/v/6pindJvcxr3B
Is there anything that I should have configured to make Markdown export be there?
And, as I say, it's the Note Format setting in the Quick Copy prefs, not the Item Format.
Does that mean there is not a way to export everything - bibliographic information and highlights to one Markdown file without using MDnotes or similar?Or to pull all the PDF annotations into a note automatically?
Thanks!
To be clear, if you're using Obsidian, using a plugin specifically built to provide Obsidian integration would be a reasonable thing to do.188BET靠谱吗(It's not called "Zotero Desktop Connector" anymore, by the way — that was a confusing name that we asked the developer to stop using.188BET靠谱吗The official Zotero Connectors are something totally different.)
We're always open to feature requests that would be generally useful, but plugins are a feature, not a bug.
We have discussed the possibility of adding the ability to quickly update a single, unedited notewith all of an item's annotations without needing to create a new one and delete the old one.
It works well, except for that last point you mention about having to delete and recreate the Annotations file.Everything else seems to be quite lovely.
Thanks!