Maybe a niche question, but is anyone aware of any way to setup a database for citations? I'd like to be able to input citation information, copy the citation, and keep that citation data saved somewhere so I can pull it out again later, preferably in whatever style I need for that moment

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  • obsidian-citation-plugin

    Obsidian plugin which integrates your academic reference manager with the Obsidian editor. Search your references from within Obsidian and automatically create and reference literature notes for papers and books.

  • 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.

  • obsidian-releases

    Community plugins list, theme list, and releases of Obsidian.

  • I heard some researchers like the modern zettelkasten systems like obsidian and you can just keep the "vault" in some sync folder. I do not personally use it because I do not do enough academic writing to justify up front time investment.

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  • papis

    Powerful and highly extensible command-line based document and bibliography manager.

  • I found this app called papis that seems like it would do what I want, but there doesn't appear to be a way to self host it.

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