Is there a way to export all libraries (including group libraries) into a single .bib file?

pecuellar · November 1, 2023

I am trying to bring my group libraries and main library into one single file via library export. Is there a way to do this?

adamsmith · November 1, 2023

Not in a single operation, no, but .bib files are just text files, so you can either manually or using the commandline copy the individual exports into a single .bib

pecuellar · November 6, 2023

Thanks @adamsmith The issue with manually doing this is that I use a synced .bib export to pull citations from other applications. When I try to add entries manually, these are erased after the next BetterBibTex sync export.

guillermocasas · February 28, 2025

This is very important. The whole point of using a centralized system to manage your library is that it is, well, centralized. In my case, I want to use Obsidian to access the libraries, but I can only access one of them! In particular, this means that I have to choose between my personal library or the one I have shared with one of my students. This makes it impractical so, in the end I end up passing files from one to the other as I need to reference them.