Trying to switch to Linux for all work-related matters. Question for those who came long before me: do you write all your work in LibreOffice Writer? Anyone have any experience with using its Zotero plug-in? And does saving a LibreOffice file in Word-format (docx/doc) for certain purposes (e.g. for feedback from colleagues) work well?

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@mattis I really recommend Markdown for just writing things down as it is way less distracting. You then can convert it easily to LaTeX and pdf with pandoc. Regarding Zotero I wanted to check out the integration in obsidian and logseq which seems to somehow exist.

https://gizn.org/notes/2023/01/20/how-to-connect-zotero-with-obsidian.html

https://medium.com/@alexandraphelan/an-academic-workflow-zotero-obsidian-56bf918d51ab

And new for logseq: (but logseq is less suited to create new documents and relies heavily on bullet points for formatting)

https://medium.com/@pkmbeth/how-to-use-the-zotero-logseq-integration-57f1fe07df1e

How to connect Zotero with Obsidian

I use Zotero for reference management and Obsidian for note taking. There is a whole religion around note taking with concepts such as “Second Brain,” “Personal Knowledge Management (PKM)” and “Zettelkasten.” I find that a bit too much but enjoy the software, it saves everything in clean .md files in your file system (makes it future proof, you can change software later on and still have all your notes) and supports wiki style linking between notes. I use Zotero simply because it is the best reference manager I have found, it is also free and open source if you are in to that.

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