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Features Obsidian.md Zettlr Bear Note Typora
Best Use Cases Personal knowledge base, reading notes Long-form academic writing, create and edit tables Meeting notes, capture web information, quick notes Blog post, create and edit table
[[Wikilinks]] Yes Yes Yes No
Auto [[Backlinks]] Yes Possible with note-link-janitor Possible with note-link-janitor N/A
Zettelkasten(yyyyMMddHHmmss) Yes Yes No No
Network Graphs Yes No No No
CWYW(Zotero+Better BibTex) Possible with zotpick.applescript Yes (also click to open PDFs) Possible with zotpick.applescript Possible with zotpick.applescript
Platforms macOS, Windows, Linux macOS, Windows, Linux macOS, iOS, iPadOS macOS, Windows, Linux
Rendering (PDFs, docx, slides...) Possible with Marked 2 App Yes Yes Yes
Other notable features Web-publishing, Custom CSS Readability scores, Pomodoro timer Fast syncing via iCloud Integration with GitHub Desktop

Information Capture Tools

Roam-Highlighter - Chrome Extension

  • Great for taking notes on webpages and copy highlights in MD
  • Output formatted for Roam or Obsidian

Mdnotes - Zotero Add-on

  • Export Zotero item metadata file and notes to markdown
  • Create a file for own notes; batch export all of the above
  • Adds # cite key-zotero as the first header (same as file name)
  • Changes Cite key: autio2018 to Cite key/Notes: [[autio2018]] to force the connection with available notes

Sample output:

# autio2018-zotero

# Digital affordances, spatial affordances, and the genesis of entrepreneurial ecosystems

## Metadata

* Type: [[Article]]
* Authors: [[Erkko Autio]], [[Satish Nambisan]], [[Llewellyn D. W. Thomas]], [[Mike Wright]]
* Date: [[03/2018]]
* Publication: [[Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal]]
* DOI: [10/gc6dk2](10/gc6dk2)
* Cite key/Notes: [[autio2018]]
* Topics: [[Ecosystem]], [[Innovation Ecosystem]], [[Entrepreneurial Ecosystem]]

Zotero to Roam Export

Zotero exports single or multiple items, as well as collections to Roam's JSON format

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