notebook VS scrivomatic

You could give notebook.ai a try, they support self hosting: https://github.com/indentlabs/notebook

According to [this](https://github.com/indentlabs/notebook#label-Running+the+notebook+stack+locally+with+Docker), they also provided a `docker-compose.yml` file, that means install and launch with Docker and Docker Compose will be easier, and it's also the recommended way to start the stack.

I'm a graduate student who's trying to beat the dissertation submission deadline by attempting to speed the writing process up by using Scrivener. I've got a really exciting research topic, but I'm super overwhelmed by the technical side of things like setting up the right formatting style and importing citations and bibliography from Zotero.I could not, for the life of me, figure out how to correctly use markdown as Scrivener also has styles and is essentially a WISIWYG text editor. Granted, I had never used markdown before, but I'd thought I'd be able to master it on the go. Nope. Instead, I wasted hours upon hours trying to get systems like Scrivomatic and Scrivener for Scientific Writing to work. It bore zero fruit. Some scripts gave mysterious error messages at random. Results compiled in Scrivener using Pandoc were just utter trash with misplaced headings and incorrect formatting. Installation of Zotpick (a shortcut for quickly copying references from Zotero) succeeded, but then it just didn't work (looks like the project has got outdated). Every attempt to get things under control spiraled into yet another rabbit hole.

Scrivomatic is what you're looking for!

If you haven't come across Scrivomatic yet, it might be worth digging into. It's basically a script that wraps around pandoc to help with compiling academic writing in Scrivener.

This may not be a solution that appeals to you as it's a bit complex and requires some setup, but I had success using the Scrivomatic approach to compile from Scrivener to markdown and then use Pandoc/Bibtex to auto include my references into whatever format I needed: https://github.com/iandol/scrivomatic