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 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 >>> which uses >>> bibdesk, and this one which uses text expander >>> , both of which I've >>> found a little awkward. >>> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pandoc-discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to pandoc-discuss+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pandoc-discuss/c8032379-cd82-4001-93ba-1e155b364bcdn%40googlegroups.com.