Hi Richard. Thank you for your work on improving citation support for org-mode. I have some experiences from using Zotero, but for the moment I'm using org-ref[1] to manage my citations.
Richard Lawrence writes: > For the past few days, I've been looking more closely at using the > combination of Zotero [1] with Erik Hetzner's zotxt plugin [2] as a > means of processing citations when exporting to non-LaTeX backends. I > am now thinking that this is probably our best option, but I'd like to > know what other people think before I sink a lot of work into it. > > Here are the reasons I think this is the best option: > > 1) It is really easy for users. I think ease of use is very important. Maybe some day we can talk with Zotero directly from Emacs, but installing a browser extension seems to be the easiest we can do for now. > I know that many people (perhaps especially the `power users' who have > been active in the citations discussion so far) prefer to maintain their > reference database without the aid of a GUI reference manager like > Zotero. Maybe two way sync between BibTeX and Zotero would be sufficient for power users? I know there is already automatic exporters to BibTex for Zotero, but some work needs to be done to make it a two-way sync. I don't mind the GUI for editing the bibliography database, especially when the Zotero Translators [2] make such a good job for scraping citation metadata directly from web pages. I wouldn't like to use the Zotero GUI for bibliography notes. I think the best feature of org-ref is that the bibliography notes are stored in an org-mode file, my preferred note-taking tool. Will this be supported with the new citation processing you are working on? Best regards, Martin Yrjölä [1] https://github.com/jkitchin/org-ref [2] https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/translators