# Zotero Integration plugin for Obsidian Zotero Integration, originally by mgmeyers and now under the obsidian-community organization, connects [[Obsidian]] to a running [[Zotero]] instance. It requires the Better BibTeX extension in Zotero, which it uses to search the library, insert citations and formatted bibliographies into notes, and pull item metadata into the vault. Its strongest feature is literature-note generation: templates written in Nunjucks define how a Zotero item becomes a note, with access to all metadata (authors, dates, tags, collections, abstract, cite key) and — crucially — to PDF annotations. Highlights, comments, and even image-area selections made in Zotero's PDF reader are extracted into the note, colored highlight by colored highlight, giving a repeatable pipeline from "read and annotate a paper in Zotero" to "structured literature note in the vault". Re-importing an item updates the note with new annotations. For academic and research workflows this automates the tedious half of a Zettelkasten: source metadata and raw annotations arrive formatted and linkable, leaving only the actual thinking to do. One caveat: maintenance has been slow — the last release dates from August 2024 — so compatibility with newer Zotero and Obsidian versions should be verified before building a critical workflow on it. ## References - Download: https://obsidian.md/plugins?id=obsidian-zotero-desktop-connector - Source code: https://github.com/mgmeyers/obsidian-zotero-integration ## Related - [[Zotero]] - [[Obsidian]]