Publishing from Obsidian
pandoc
Just install this one and forget about it. Installation guide can be found here: https://pandoc.org/installing.html.
Exporting from Obsidian…
…to documents
First, you need to export a Zotero collection or your whole library (not recommended if you have many items).
- Right-click the collection you want to export and chose Export Collection…
The settings you should have ticked are:
- Export Notes (enables you to import your notes and annotation into Obsidian)
- Use Journal Abbreviation (can’t remember why, just do it)
- Keep updates (when you add another source to that collection in Zotero it will automatically make a new export)
Use the path to the Zotero BibTeX export file and put it into Citation database path. You’re free in using whatever you want for Literature note folder. That is just the place where the notes end up that you import from Zotero.
As a last step, go into the pandoc plugin settings and put the following preferences:
- Export files from HTML or markdown: Markdown
- Export folder: Whatever you want, I like mine in the same place all the time
- Pandoc path: Use their guide in the little note to find this value, you can use mine (
/usr/local/bin/pandoc) on macOS - Extra Pandoc arguments: This is important
--bibliography=/Users/adrian/path/to/Export.bib --citeproc --csl=/Users/adrian/path/to/Citation-Style.cslIf you don’t know what a citation style is yet, just leave out the --csl=/Users/adrian/path/to/Citation-Style.csl part. This little piece of information will let pandoc know, that you used references in your text, and tries to replace them accordingly during export.
…to websites
but I personally use pancake.sh for that. It’s a bunch of scripts I wrote myself to generate a website from an Obsidian vault.