Technical or academic writers... if you use Zotero for your sources, and if you sync to Zotero ($ but not much $), you get API access to your Zotero stuff - you can just set up an API key.

Which means you can programmatically add a *tag* to all the items you are using in a paper.

And you can export a bib file filtered for the key.

So. then in your paper you can just cite your item (like if you use pandoc [@MyDocumentKey: 22-23] or what now).

Then you can automate the rest: run a script to list the docs you are citing (by citation key - I use Better BibText so I can rename those), and another to refresh your Zotero tags so you can automatically export the CORRECT bib file for your bibliography when you generate a bib file with a filtered list.

Also if you want to procrastinate you can write scripts instead of writing your paper.

#zotero #PyZotero #writing #amProcrastinating

#Cat picture in the documentation for #PyZotero 🥰

https://pyzotero.readthedocs.io/en/latest/#cat-picture

#catsofmastodon #猫 #ねこ

Using #PyZotero I am flattening my library by converting all my #Zotero collections into tags. A nice way to deprecate over 150 collections that I accumulated over the years, without deleting any data.

If I need to retrieve any collection in the future I can always create a "saved search".