Obsidian Scholar
Usage
Key Features
Installation
Install from Obsidian Plugin Library
This plugin will be released upon the approval of the maintainers. See this PR.
Manual Installation
- Open the
.obsidian/plugins
folder in your vault - Create a folder called
scholar
- Download the three files
manifest.json
,styles.css
, andmain.js
from the latest release, and put the files in the.obsidian/plugins/scholar
folder you just created. - Open Obsidian and in
settings > community plugins
, findScholar
and enable the plugin. Be sure to change theScholar
settings properly before use.
Motivation and Acknowledgement
The goal of Obsidian Scholar is to create a smooth experience that spans from paper reading, note taking, and reflection and synthesis. The construction is based on two powerful ideas.
- Annotated Bibliography that takes short notes for papers and summarizes the key points in your personal bibliography.
- Zettlekasten note taking system that aims to take atomic and short notes and link them together.
In Obsidian Scholar, we treat each paper as an individual note---we make it painless to ingest the paper PDF and create the note file---and the Obsidian app makes it easy to link paper notes and helps you to reflect and synthesize the knowledge.
The development of the tools are inspired by many predecessors that are implemented in EMACS.
- citar: A reference manager work in EMACS.
- elfeed: A RSS reader in EMACS.
- elfeed-score: A RSS reader with scoring function in EMACS.
Also thanks the following people for their excellent blogposts and tutorials illustrating their paper reading workflow:
- Managing a research workflow (bibliographies, note-taking, and arXiv) by Ahmed Khaled
- Managing ArXiv RSS Feeds in Emacs by Chris Cundy
Some of the code is based on a previous project called paper-note-filer by Claudia Hauff.