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You're right having one source note per book might be a bit of an overkill - unless for example it is a novel that you just need minimal notes on.
Here you have to try find a solution that works - My idea would be to break it up into chapters and have a source note per chapter. Especially technical books often have unrelated chapters.
The DOI i keep to be abtle to use bibtex & create citations. But it is by far not the only system in use.
I would find out how the book you are reading is usually cited - there will be some number there. Store this number so you have a citation key for this book later on. I have not tried it personally though.
Question please. Do you copy all of your quotables into a relevant collection/compendium? I'm wondering whether this is a bit redundant, but if I don't, I might not come across it again? Thank you.
Hello! I really like your content. But I have a question. Sometimes books are used as sources, there are few occasions but sometimes you find them. How would you structure your meta data to include them? Would you replace the DOI with the ISBN? How would you change the structure of your template? Would you create multiple notes? Regards.
Thank you so much Ilya Shabanov. I am learning how you do things. I am curious about the citation you use. Is it possible to have the bibliography like Zotero that can be called upon in the various styles (e.g. APA, Chicago, etc)? It would be great, as you say, to not need two apps. I do like Obsidian a lot, but rely on Zotero for the importing of bibliographic citation.
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and experience!
Hi Jeannie,
yes but it requires a tiny bit of legwork.
1. You need one note per paper + its DOIs added at the top. (Doesn't work if your papers don't have DOIs, very rare these days though)
2. You need a plugins, either dataview or "datafolders"
Check out this thread how to create your citation list:
https://twitter.com/Artifexx/status/1603976132306796544
...but then found an evenbetter solution for "dataview" since it is not very user friendly. "Database Folders"
https://twitter.com/Artifexx/status/1604949090399555584
Hope that helps!
Hi Ernesto,
You're right having one source note per book might be a bit of an overkill - unless for example it is a novel that you just need minimal notes on.
Here you have to try find a solution that works - My idea would be to break it up into chapters and have a source note per chapter. Especially technical books often have unrelated chapters.
The DOI i keep to be abtle to use bibtex & create citations. But it is by far not the only system in use.
I would find out how the book you are reading is usually cited - there will be some number there. Store this number so you have a citation key for this book later on. I have not tried it personally though.
Question please. Do you copy all of your quotables into a relevant collection/compendium? I'm wondering whether this is a bit redundant, but if I don't, I might not come across it again? Thank you.
You can make links to other documents on Word.
Hello! I really like your content. But I have a question. Sometimes books are used as sources, there are few occasions but sometimes you find them. How would you structure your meta data to include them? Would you replace the DOI with the ISBN? How would you change the structure of your template? Would you create multiple notes? Regards.
Thank you so much Ilya Shabanov. I am learning how you do things. I am curious about the citation you use. Is it possible to have the bibliography like Zotero that can be called upon in the various styles (e.g. APA, Chicago, etc)? It would be great, as you say, to not need two apps. I do like Obsidian a lot, but rely on Zotero for the importing of bibliographic citation.
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and experience!