zotero VS zotero-mdnotes

Reference managers like Zotero and Mendeley

I use Zotero[1] as a personal web archiver. It downloads the page locally, placing most of the resources inside a single html file (pictures become base64 encoded pngs, for example). I find it the best way to have the content available offline and also to be able to reference it easily, seeing as it is a citation manager first.

[1] https://www.zotero.org/

> a new academic area

Research papers and books then. I use Google Scholar for searching, and libgen / scihub for the stuff I can't get access to easily.

> I inevitably lose track of papers.

A tools I used in graduate school for keeping track of research papers (and books): Zotero (https://www.zotero.org/).

> I'm curious if there are already tools out there to aggegate open access research by your own criteria (i.e. from specific sources only, prioritise by keyword)?

University Libraries seem to do this; And to a lesser extent smaller libraries associated with communities. Some software that I know of that was related to how my library did things is EZproxy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EZproxy). It manages access to journals and databases, which is at least a part of how to address this point. Otherwise, I'm not aware of a service that does this; Though I will keep an eye on the thread just in case someone else has a good recommendation.

FWIW, I've gotten in the habit of using Zotero (https://www.zotero.org/) with a browser extension to do this. If I read something that I think I might want to reference later, I just hit an extension button and it gets slurped into Zotero with a bunch of information indexed for retrieval later.

Maybe try Zotero[1]. There are many addons which can do what you need.

[1]https://www.zotero.org/

Hm, have you ever considered using Mdnotes and if so, would you be able to compare your workflow with the one it leads to?

I then extract these highlights and annotations using the Zotfile plug-in, and import them into my literature notes folder in Obsidian. I really liked the Mdnotes plugin for this, but it recently stopped working for me so I re-created the template, which I have to populate manually, and which is structured into three sections: metadata, summary, and key ideas.

If it's of interest I just found this zotero plugin, Zotero mdnotes, and the joplin plugin Hotfolder, work quite well together.

I recently installed the ZotFile and MdNotes plugins to Zotero as described here. The ability to export highlights and other annotations to a .md file is really useful, and makes me think that there must be a CLI out there which does something similar. I ask because ideally I would like to avoid having to go into Zotero, click on the pdf, extract annotations, then export to a .md file, selecting the project folder each time that I want to scrap export my annotations from a pdf. Rather, I'd like to integrate this process into Vim so that when there is some citation I have, I can use the Vimtex context feature to point the pdf-annotations-to-markdown-CLI that I hope exists at whatever pdf is included for that citation. My question is: does anyone know of such a piece of software which does something like this? Any pointers would be greatly appreciated!

Zotero mdnotes https://github.com/argenos/zotero-mdnotes