How-to guides

Step-by-step solutions for specific tasks: creating notes, inserting citations, customizing templates, and migrating.

Each guide solves one task. Find the situation that matches yours.

Core usage

You have a Zotero item and want a literature note in your vault.

You need a Markdown citation in the current note.

Your Zotero data changed and the literature note is stale.

You want child notes from Zotero as standalone Markdown files.

You want to browse highlights in a sidebar while reading in Zotero.

You want Zotero to push changes to Obsidian automatically.

The default output does not match what you want in your notes.

You need to find which fields are available for a template.

You want custom YAML fields in your literature note frontmatter.

You need Eta syntax or JavaScript expressions in your templates.

You are upgrading from ZotLit v1 and need to confirm the transition.

You have custom Eta templates from v1 that need updating for v2.