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The Supercharged Citation Picker can create and open Markdown literature notes for any BibTeX entry. Notes are named exactly after their citekey, making them trivially linkable from citations in your writing.

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Setup

Set the literature_note_folder workflow variable to the absolute path of the directory where your literature notes live (e.g., ~/Documents/Notes/Literature). Notes must be:
  • .md files (Markdown)
  • Named exactly like the citekey, with no extra prefix or suffix (e.g., Grieser2020.md for citekey Grieser2020)

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Visual Indicator

Entries that have a matching literature note in the configured folder display a 📓 emoji in the citation picker list, so you can see at a glance which entries already have notes.

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Open or Create a Note

Keyboard shortcut: ⌃⌥↵
  • If a note already exists, it is opened immediately.
  • If no note exists, a new file is created with the following YAML front matter template, then opened:
---
tags: 
aliases:
---
The file is written to {literature_note_folder}/{citekey}.md.

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Obsidian Integration

If literature_note_folder (or any of its parent directories) is inside an Obsidian vault, the workflow detects this automatically by reading Obsidian’s vault registry at ~/Library/Application Support/obsidian/obsidian.json. Vault detection uses a case-insensitive path prefix match, so it works correctly regardless of how macOS capitalizes directory names. When the note is inside a vault:
  • Obsidian is brought to the foreground.
  • The note is opened via the obsidian://open?path=… URI scheme, using the full absolute path.
  • A short delay is applied after creating a new file so Obsidian can index it before the open command is sent.
When the note is not inside a vault, the file is opened with the system default Markdown app (open command).
Obsidian vault detection checks all parent paths, not just the immediate folder. If your vault uses a flat structure and all notes live directly in the vault root, you can still set literature_note_folder to any subfolder within the vault and Obsidian will open notes correctly. The detection will match any ancestor directory that Obsidian recognizes as a vault.

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Filter by Literature Note

Add * anywhere in your search query to show only entries that have an associated literature note. This filter can be freely combined with all other search terms. Examples:
QueryResult
*All entries that have a literature note
* grieserEntries by Grieser that have a literature note
* 2020 #cognition2020 entries tagged “cognition” that have a literature note
See Smart Queries for the full range of combinable query types.

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