Two Zotero translators are included:
Markdown.Item.URI.Obsidian.Dataview.js translator allows to quick-copy Zotero metatada important to historians (authors, editors, [letter] recipients, title, publication, date, archive, archive-location, citekey) as YAML fields to an Obsidian markdown note. You would use the Dataview plugin to search this metadata.
Markdown.Item.URI.Citation.js allows to quick-copy Zotero reference with a URI that links from Obsidian note back to a Zotero item.
For an advanced historical research workflow, check out Obsidian History Vault and Doing History with Zotero and Obsidian
- Install Zotero 6 https://www.zotero.org/download
- Add Zotero Connector to your Browser (video)
- Create online account on Zotero https://www.zotero.org/user/register
- Set up sync for your data (without PDFs for free or with PDFs for a fee) to your online Zotero account https://www.zotero.org/support/sync
- Install BetterBibTex https://retorque.re/zotero-better-bibtex/ (video)
- Install Zutilo for Zotero (video)
- Map Markdown translators to keyboard shortcuts in Zutilo https://github.com/wshanks/Zutilo (video)
- Install Obsidian https://obsidian.md/
- Turn on Live Preview
- Create a new vault (video)
- Download a book from Worldcat into Zotero (video)
- Download an article from JStor into Zotero (video)
- Annotate a PDF in Zotero and move the annotation to a Zotero note (video)
- Create and link notes (Files and Links: Automatically update internal links - on) (video)
- Write in Markdown (italics, headings, external link, highlight) (video)
- Add footnotes in Edit View and navigate in Reading View (Community plugins: Safe mode - off; install Footnote Shortcut plugin) (video)
- Tag notes (Core plugins: Tag pane - on; Community plugins: Safe mode - off; install Tag Wrangler plugin) (video)
- Search notes (Core plugins: Starred - on) (video)
- Link visualization: Backlinks, local Graph view, Global Graph view (video)
- Organizing with Workspaces (Core plugins: Workspaces - on) (video)