obsidian-citation-plugin VS breadcrumbs

Does https://github.com/hans/obsidian-citation-plugin maybe work for you?

I've been in contact with the creator of the Obsidian Citations plugin which you may have noticed has been relatively quite for the past year or so.

Another problem is that no matter how much I tried, the two available Zotero plugins for Obsidian do not work for me (this https://github.com/mgmeyers/obsidian-zotero-integration and this https://github.com/hans/obsidian-citation-plugin). I am not sure if that is because I'm on Linux, but they just don't work. However, RStudio on Linux works great with Zotero, and I can easily add citations using the Better BibTeX for Zotero plugin (https://github.com/retorquere/zotero-better-bibtex) to create citation keys. That way, I can simply copy/paste the citation key (e.g. '@lastname2020') in the text and have it render into the citation when I render the file in Rstudio. I sometimes write documents with > 300 references, and Zotero running in a Windows VM, trying to refresh a huge word document would take a long time, and would lead to corrupt citations. That's no problem with a markdown/Rmarkdown document.

I like it more than other options like Citation: https://github.com/hans/obsidian-citation-plugin

There are several plugins to organize citations available for Obsidian, although you'd probably need to be willing to migrate your workflow (notes, citations, etc.) into it to get the most out of it.

How about this?

For (2) above, I use the reading note template provided by obsidian-citation-plugin.

6+7) Yes, that's correct! I read on the ereader (Boox NoteAir), then import annotations into Zotero (described above). The annotations are exported to Obsidian using the citations plugin (I could share my template, if you're interested). Now I have a markdown document with metadata and all the highlights. Then I can go through the (very time-consuming!) task of summarizing these highlights into notes. I write two types of notes: first a 'literature note' (one big one, some I'm not completely sticking to the Zettelkasten method here) with headings for each idea from the texts that I want to have a note on. I rewrite the highlights in my own words (and have the text open for reference while I do that), and sometimes I'll embed some highlights as quotes if I think it's nice to keep the original wording of the author there too. These literature notes stick closely to the original text; I won't add anything. The second type are like 'permanent notes'. In these, I might add ideas from other authors, my own ideas etc. Perhaps 'living notes' would be a better term, because this is where I try to synthesize ideas from different sources (and thus they'll constantly be expanded and rewritten as I read, learn and think more).

Waypoint with Folder Note has been a huge improvement for me over things I used to try to do with Breadcrumbs.

Parse block but do not render: - Don't use inner links like [[Note]] in the YAML block, because it doesn't update automatically when you rename the link title. You can test this yourself. - To navigate between MOCs I use Breadcrumb plugin and fill 5 fields (up, same...). - Source block consists of link to article, video...link to author (or simple text), and date of content. - Original block is optional and is used for content that links to the original object (article, video, book). In other words, make it clear that this object is an heir to the knowledge. - Summary field I use to attach to Meta-notes or Group-notes - Summary field, that I use to attach to Meta-notes or Group-note so that I can use Dataview syntax (🤖 =[[NOTE]].summary) to show what the article is about and mark it with an emoji 🤖, because you can't tell if I wrote it myself or it was writting by someone else.

And the breadcrumbs plugin may also be useful for you since you seem to like to have hierarchical organization.

Perhaps one plugin I think might be very useful in your use is Breadcrumbs. It allows you to set up Parent > Child > Sibling relationships between notes using metadata, has a descendancy view (shows all notes in an outline that are related), it's own graph tailored to it's use, or can use Juggl for custom views. I'm sure there's more that isn't coming to my mind right now. But I think you'd find it helpful. The documentation is good, and there's even some YouTube videos on using it.

I think the Breadcrumbs plugin is highly underrated. It gives me another way to structure and navigate my notes in hierarchies that is independent of organization scheme.

Maybe something like Breadcrumbs?

Hey GhostDoj. You can find it here: https://github.com/SkepticMystic/breadcrumbs/wiki/Alternative-Hierarchies

The wiki might have what you need, but I'm also happy to help you set it up over reddit or Discord @SkepticMystic :)