Zotero for Beginners: A guided walkthrough

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Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
0:20 App download
0:43 Heads up display
2:35 Items
4:15 Tags
5:25 Reading PDF's
7:34 Discussion
8:23 Citations

About:
Danny Hatcher is a researcher, filmmaker and journalist. He currently is based in Eastbourne, UK, reporting on interesting trends and stories domestically and around the globe. Danny's storytelling blends rigorous research with videography to create content that explains complex issues in relatable ways. He holds a BSc in Sports Coaching from Brighton University and an MSc in Strength and Conditioning from Brighton University.

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Thank you for this tutorial and the template (bought!). I am a beginner-user with both pieces of software and was rather lost with integrating Zotero into Obsidian. Your walk-through was what I needed to understand the configuration of the add-on, and to understand better how the templating works. Thanks again.

[KaraSwims]

Thanks so much. I've watched this a couple of times now and have a good handle on the basics. I'm switching from End Note to Zotero.

[kanatbaikenov]

Thank you for the video. It was very helpful!

[Doomgutt]

Hey, thanks for the video. I discovered you recently and your videos have been very helpful to smooth out my own Obsidian plugin/workflow bloat. Quick question:

At 7:30 you say "I export the notes to Obsidian via a hotkey and do my formatting there", could you elaborate? Maybe you explained it in a previous video? I spent *a lot* of time trying to get the Zotero->Obsidian transition to be smooth and the best plugin I found for that is Bibnotes Formatter by Stefano Pagliari, but perhaps you have a quicker way?

Thanks!

[giftcp]

Sorry to come with another question. After capturing a blog for example with zotero plug in. How do you link the associated pdf saved from the same location with the reference. How is this process automated

[ryanwwest]

I do this same thing by also archiving all sorts of non-academic articles I like, partially inspired by your earlier videos. There is now a night mode plugin which makes it nicer. Wish list: 1) Native Zotero Android app, not just Zoo for Zotero. 2) ePUB/HTML annotation support. 3) more streamlined links and annotations access in Obsidian.

[DavidEsp]

Many thanks for your run-through Danny. Regarding tags, is there a way to get it to prompt/autosuggest (autocomplete) them? Necessary because I have orders of magnitude greater numbers of tags than 9. I currently use Notion, and the Chrome plugin Notion Saver does exactly that, based on my Master tags table (in Notion). Is there a way to do that using Obsidian together with either Zotero or some other app/service/browser-plugin? "Tags disconnect" is one of the (small number of) things making me hesitant about switching to Obsidian (despite its many advantages).

[mageprometheus]

Excellent. I see you are using Zotero-markdb-connect. I mentioned it in a previous comment but didn't realise you already used it.

[anonymous_t]

Hey, nice guide. If you are working on 2 separate word files and use zotero for references, is it possible to combine these 2 word files into 1 and have the references organized automatically in order?

[nikhilrathod]

Hello Danny. Nice in depth tutorial. Could you please do a review or guide on Zotero Better Notes Plugin?

[giftcp]

can someone please share how zotero can be used with youtube or where i can find information on this

[mikhaeldito]

I am curious, what does the color of your highlights represent?

[diegohawkins]

Do you put books you want to read in Zotero?