# Obsidian for Research
## [[zotero|Zotero]] Integration
Extensions used:
- [[zotero-obsidian-integration|Zotero Integration]]
- Pulls literatures from Zotero into the vault as a literature note.
- Can optionally extract annotations created as well.
- Can include any metadata through templating.
- Can also be used as a citation picker to cite while writing.
- [Pandoc Reference List](https://github.com/mgmeyers/obsidian-pandoc-reference-list)
- Render Pandoc format reference in Obsidian note.
- Combined with Zotero interaction for writing manuscript.
- Hovering popup can be used to open 1) literature note in vault, 2)
literation in Zotero, 3) original PDF.
A proposed pipeline:
1. Add literature to Zotero.
2. Read the literature inside Zotero (annotating)
3. Once read, pull the literature into the vault (along with annotations)
4. Draft summary note in Obsidian
## Discussion
- Theoretically we don't have to pull the literature into Obsidian, whenever we
need to cite/reference/link a