Re: Inserting citations into text editors

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Could you suggest what set of tools you ended up with to easily insert 
citations into markdown text ? :D

On Thursday, September 21, 2017 at 6:03:51 AM UTC+8 MK wrote:

> This looks like a great set of tools! Unfortunately, I use Papers, and I 
> tend to manage my citations with just a .bib file that Papers generates. I 
> might try and adapt some of this to work with that though, and to use 
> Launchbar. Not too much work I hope...
>
>
> On Sunday, September 17, 2017 at 9:50:48 AM UTC-5, iandol wrote:
>>
>> Well, you don't say which reference manager you use, but if you use 
>> Bookends, and you'd consider using Alfred (I switched from Quicksilver), 
>> I've curated a set of Alfred tools including one which searches the 
>> database, and inserts your Pandoc formatted [@citation] in any text editor 
>> or word processor:
>>
>> https://github.com/iandol/bookends-tools — becite tool
>>
>> You bring up Alfred, type in an author and get an inline list of 
>> references in the Alfred window, then ⌘enter to paste the citation. I use 
>> it with Scrivener, which already has excellent integration with Bookends 
>> (⌘Y quick switches you between text⬄ref), when I know exactly the paper I 
>> want to cite.
>>
>> On Saturday, 9 September 2017 01:15:34 UTC+8, Mendel Kranz wrote:
>>>
>>> I've been using a number of different writing programs recently, and 
>>> each time I make a switch I always run into the same problem, how to easily 
>>> insert citations. Most recently I've been satisfied with Sublime Text and 
>>> this plugin <https://github.com/sjpfenninger/citebibtex> that reads my 
>>> .bib file and easily inserts the pandoc citation. Now I'm fiddling with 
>>> Ulysses, and I've run into the problem again: how to easily access and 
>>> insert my citations. I plan on continuing to use a .bib file and convert 
>>> with pandoc.
>>>
>>> Since I use Launchbar, I thought that if there were a way to search 
>>> through my .bib file with that and insert my citation, this would make the 
>>> issues disappear. However, I'm really not sure how to do it. Essentially 
>>> I'm looking for the same functionality of that plugin just not tied to 
>>> sublime text. Any thoughts would be appreciated! 
>>>
>>> One related problem I run into with other options, is that I often have 
>>> one author with multiple books which can make searching through citekeys 
>>> difficult. For instance I may have 5 cite keys listed as @foo123, @foo345, 
>>> @foo678, etc. So if, when searching, it could display the author name and 
>>> book, and then insert the citekey that would be the best!
>>>
>>> PS I've seen some options such as this one by David Sanson 
>>> <https://github.com/dsanson/bibdesk-pandoc-export-templates> which uses 
>>> bibdesk, and this one which uses text expander 
>>> <https://github.com/andrewheiss/pandoc-citekeys>, both of which I've 
>>> found a little awkward. 
>>>
>>

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