ZoteroObsidianTemplates

Some templates for integrating Zotero, AI and Obsidian

To get this to work

(1) I would install the following plugins

Highlightr : This makes the Zotero highlight colors work properly instead of all turning to yellow.

Pandoc : These make citations and citation pop ups all work nicely

Pandoc Reference List

Tasks : This allows you to track what papers to read

Templater : I am not sure you need this for this but you may because of all the dependencies ( will double check later)

Zotero Integration : the key Template that makes all this work.

(2) Place the Zotero Template.md file in your Vault and point your Zotero Integration plugin at it. This is under the Zotero Integration plugin Settings -> Template File

(3) Under Settings -> Appearance -> CSS Snippets add the zotero-read-status.css file

What this does is add the text to the right of the "Read Status" in each .md file

(4) Think about how you want you want to create your summary sections as notes in Zotero. I am using PDFPals for this. The only thing that is important here is there are notes that have headers that start with

#Summary

For the summary of the paper

#Hypothesis

For the hypothesis

#Methodology

For the methodology

#Result

For the main results of the paper

#Significance

You don't need all these fields, whether you have one or more. The template will fill in the fields for you in the .md file as you import.

(5) save the Literature Summary Script.md somewhere in your vault. This will pull the data for you and put it in a table.

(6) In the task Manager you need to add 4 custom Statuses.

Go to Settings->Tasks-> Custom Statuses

Click Add New Task Status

The first one has the following settings:

     Task Status Symbol: U 

     Task Status Name:Unread

     Next Task Status Symbol: >

     Task Status Type: NON_TASK

The second one has the following settings:

     Task Status Symbol: >

     Task Status Name: To Read

     Next Task Status Symbole: ~

     Task Status Type: TODO

The third one has the following settings:

    Task Status Symbol: ~

    Task Status Name: In Progress

    Next Status Symbol: R

    Task Status Type: In Progress

The last one has the following settings:

    Task Status Symbol: R

    Task Status Name: Read

    Task Next Status Symbol: U

    Task Status Type: DONE

(7) To view the papers that are flagged to read just use the file (or copy the simple script) from toReadTask.md somewhere.

  One thing I noticed is a lot of themes use these symbols so so the images might be weird. I am using the Blue Topaz theme and the symbols that come out           look reasonable.

By default this script puts all the papers in a folder called "Literature". You should be able to edit the files to change this to something else if you'd like.