Skip to content

Feature request: Show Pandoc citations as graph nodes #159

Description

@ReSrn

Feature request: Show Pandoc citations as graph nodes

I use [@citekey] citations in Obsidian with Zotero + Better BibTeX. My workflow is to keep Zotero as the literature database and use Obsidian for synthesis notes.
Currently, Obsidian's graph cannot show relationships between notes that cite the same paper, because Pandoc citations are treated as plain text.
Would it be possible to expose citekeys as virtual graph nodes?
Example:

Note A: [@smith2020]
Note B: [@smith2020]

Could become:

Note A ─── @smith2020 ─── Note B

without converting citations into [[wikilinks]] or creating duplicate literature notes.

I know it is possible to use [[@citekey]] links, but this creates links to Obsidian notes rather than directly representing the bibliography entries managed by Zotero.

A citation graph would allow users to discover conceptual clusters and shared references while keeping the existing Pandoc/Zotero workflow intact and prevent redundant information entropy for duplicate blank notes in the vault.

Metadata

Metadata

Assignees

No one assigned

    Labels

    No labels
    No labels

    Type

    No type

    Projects

    No projects

    Milestone

    No milestone

    Relationships

    None yet

    Development

    No branches or pull requests

    Issue actions