Custom Zotero Template for Obsidian

[@rezaalghifari3477]

thankyou for this, very useful and concise explanation to non coder

[@workwithwalter]

Brilliant! Tried to build this, failed completely, now looking forward for the new attempt. Thanks for the fantastic step by step guide, really showing where you find the code words and it’s functions. 🙏

[@workwithwalter]

If that will workout smoothly, would be nice creating pdfs out of epubs and working with the annotations as well. Unless I missed learning about an elegant option exporting annotations from mac books-app?

[@Qwerty8]

Sometimes something is missing from the system.... Like Python, MacTex... zotfile... there are so many. There is also a customisation in Zothero for fonts, special characters are always difficult to export. Also when importing...

[@Qwerty8]

Sometimes something is missing from the system.... Like Python, MacTex... zotfile... there are so many. There is also a customisation in Zothero for fonts, special characters are always difficult to export. Also when importing...

[@TheJoshtheboss]

Excellent 👌! Thanks Danny!

[@Robert.Marshall]

working through this tutorial up @12:40, its not importing annotatedText and Im not getting any errors. in edit mode, I can see the imported file has placeholders for %% begin annotations %% and ending them, but I do not see any imported annotations in edit or reader mode for that imported page.

[@DannyHatcherTech]

Are there highlights in the item you have imported? You might have a duplicate in Zotero which is empty.

[@Robert.Marshall]

@@DannyHatcherTech It's working now, thank you. It ended up being a case Issue with one of the variables not matching its declaration with its use... NewAnnotations instead of newAnnotations. I finally realized that was the issue after checking for duplicates, moving the Zotero files out of onedrive, thinking that may have been the issue, then uninstalling and reinstalling the obsidian addon. After a few hours of doing other things, I came back with a fresh perspective on it and saw the mistake pretty quickly. 😬 Thanks again for this tutorial, it's a great starting template.

[@joaoholanda3021]

Thanks! A lot of new information for a newbie

[@MeganSmith-qw4hy]

This was so helpful thank you!! I do have a question though, how can I add my own notes within the Zotero note and link it to other related notes without losing it every time I refresh it? Or is that not possible?

[@DannyHatcherTech]

You can make it so data stays but I only import once.

[@mariagabrielafrancodelima9740]

That was very useful, thank you!

[@bethdavidson6670]

Hi Danny, it doesn't seem to be working for me and i have stared at the code for so long! can you please tell me what i am doing wrong: the code i have done: Comments on pdf: {% persist "annotations" %} {% set newAnnotations = annotations | filterby ("date", "dateafter", lastimportDate) %} {% if newAnnotations.length > 0 %} ### Imported: {{importDate | format("YYYY-MM-DD")}} {% for a in newAnnotations %} >{% if a.annotatedText %} >{{a.annotatedText}}{% endif %} >{{a.colourCategory}} {{a.Type}} [Page {{a.apage}}]({{ a.desktopURI }}) {% if a.comment %}{{a.comment}}{% endif %} {% endfor %} {% endif %} {% endpersist %} and this is what is happening: Comments on pdf: %% begin annotations %% %% end annotations %% %% Import Date: 2024-12-09T23:12:39.472+00:00 %%

[@ashleynguyen4802]

Thanks Danny so much

[@syedamanhussain6361]

Hi i m trying to export highlights into obsidian from zotero but the data is seen in the the "test" of zotero data explorer yet not synced in the note

[@syedamanhussain6361]

Can anyone please help

[@DannyHatcherTech]

Obsidian to Zotero doesn't work. It is the other way around.

[@anqizhang-n9e]

your videos are gem

[@craniumization]

Rather than the color heading "loop.first" setting, is it possible to just make the color headings sequential? (ie, maintain the sequence for the original Zotero document?)

[@DannyHatcherTech]

I think so but I am not sure.

[@daroletibuza]

Where did i get the panel with the linked mention?

[@DannyHatcherTech]

Obsidian linked mentions are backlinks. I show my backlinks in the file. You can go through the command palette to turn it on, if it is off for some reason.

[@FancyPantsPatches-Charissa]

Thank you for this!! I can not get the colors to show up in Obsidian.

[@DannyHatcherTech]

without seeing it, this is likely a formatting issue.

[@vespuciomascarenhas1189]

do you know any way to cut each annotation to a single note?

[@DannyHatcherTech]

I believe there is an options explained in the official help doc. I don't find that useful so didn't include it. Sorry.

[@JaayEl]

Do you think it is possible to not have the keywords as "tag1, tag2, tag3, ..." into properties section but rather as "[[tag1]], [[tag2]], [[tag3]], [[..]]" so you can use them as new pages?

[@DannyHatcherTech]

Yes that shoulf be doable. I am not sure the syntax tho.

[@workwithwalter]

Danny, in your 4th template, where you added the citation-callout, I think you need to adjust "annotation.desktop-URI" into "annot.desktop.URI", otherwise the pagination link to zotero will not work..

[@DannyHatcherTech]

good catch. Thank you.

[@bretbret938]

@@DannyHatcherTech I changed it in my template, but still I'm not able to click on the Zotero link within the callout. Is this a general problem within callouts?

[@DannyHatcherTech]

@@bretbret938 hmm, it works fine for me. If it doesnt take you to Zotero, maybe try the import with it outside a callout. If it doesnt work there, the link template info must be wrong in some way 🤔

[@user-lo3fx2en3q]

@@bretbret938 using {{a.desktopURI}} worked for me in my callouts

[@Qwerty8]

Boom 💥 ❤❤

[@dipenshah6660]

Hi Danny, thanks it works great. I read lot of pdf books and use highlights to bring it in obsidian. Can you please share the code for associating colours with heading styles. It can automise creation of entire book within obsidian very easy. Also creating an obsidian link within zotero will be a very useful feature. I am open to buying and honour your efforts.

[@DannyHatcherTech]

I have a video explaining the zotero templates on the channel. 😁

[@dipenshah6660]

@@DannyHatcherTech I think i replied after watching the same zotero template video. I have not been able to locate another video. I went through atleast 100. My requirement is as follows: 1) If i highlight say (blue) in zotero-it should create heading one (h1) in obsidian, yellow-sub-heading (h2) and so on. Also I would like to create a internal link for obsidian from within zotero (dont know how will it be possible).

[@DannyHatcherTech]

@@dipenshah6660 hmm, the custom code at the end alongside the the data explorer should help but if you are still struggling I would ask in the academia cgannel in the discord server.

[@dipenshah6660]

@@DannyHatcherTech That code is for sorting by highlight colour. I saw that obsidian markup like # for heading works in zotero. So you can markup in zotero and obsidian will automatically take heading. However if there is a code which gives heading style based on colour it becomes a breeze and saves lot of time.

[@camuesli]

Thanks for this great tutorial! I managed create a Zotero template based on your tutorial in kzbin.info/www/bejne/sHa8oWN4f7Fqg7c. How can I ensure that the imported annotations in Obsidian have the same annotation colour (not as font colour but as background colour) as the annotations in the PDF file? (The annotations should not be grouped by colour, but should remain in the original order).

[@DannyHatcherTech]

Great question! That is HTML/CSS which I don't work with often so I am not sure. Discord would be the best place to ask. FYI - putting links in comments put them in the 'held for review' section so creators don't see them unless they go looking - hence the delayed response.