anystyle VS www.mechaelephant.com

Try https://anystyle.io/

Another possibility is to use https://anystyle.io/ - it is a parser, so you paste your bibliography in and it tries to parse it for you into a style that can be read by Zotero. Some bibliographies will take a lot of work, some won't - it depends on the system you've been using. Give it a go and see

But you might try typesetting the bibliography, copy the result and run it through something like anystyle.io, which offers BibTeX output.

If you already have it typed out and want to try a tool to parse and convert, there's stuff like anystyle.io, but you'll probably need to clean up the results as they won't be perfect.

Failing that there are services like AnyStyle.io that will parse unformatted bibliography entries.

For me, the idea is sound but the implementation always seems so cumbersome. I want something that separates the data from the display as much as possible, has an easy 'note taking' and has an easy install. One problem I always encounter is that if the interface to add notes has too much friction, I stop using it pretty quickly.

Anyway, so I created something over the weekend called 'notenox' [0]. It creates a a JSON file of relevant information, one JSON file per note, with keywords and a "special" keyword prefix called a 'title' that mimics how I've actually been taking notes (email, so the 'title' mimics an email thread). For display, I consolidate all JSON files into a single JSON file and then have it loaded into the browser with some Javascript to group by title or keyword, along with doing all cross referencing and counting on the client end.

Creating notes is done through the command line, because that's a common way I interact with my computer, with different options to create titles, links, keywords, etc. I'm sure there are many different Zettelkasten implementations out there but they always seem so clunky and cumbersome. It's not hard, so the simple use case should be simple, nor should it proprietary or locked behind a SaaS.

You can see my personal notes in action, if you like [1] (sorry, not mobile friendly!).

[0] https://github.com/abetusk/www.mechaelephant.com/tree/releas...

[1] https://mechaelephant.com/notenox