Getting started with using Zotero in Ulysses

kerimfriedman · October 17, 2021

I do all my initial writing in Ulysses and then switch to either Google Docs or Word to edit the final version of my document. One reason I do this is because it is easier to add citations that way. I know there are lots of tutorials and discussions about how to use Ulysses with Zotero, but some of the workflows look quite complicated. A lot also seem to be out of date. What is a simple, up-to-date, workflow for using Zotero in Ulysses? Thanks!

kerimfriedman · October 17, 2021

UPDATE: Seems that a lot of the complexity I find is from people who want to go from plaintext directly to Word via Pandoc. I'm happy to skip that and convert to RTF or even .docx or .odf formats. It seems that this is possible by using the RTF scan feature which is documented here: https://www.zotero.org/support/rtf_scan

kerimfriedman · October 17, 2021

Hmmm. I'll have to experiment some more. Right now the RTF scan approach is not very great. ODF scan seems more promising, giving more control, but I was not able to get it to work... (I wrote the developers of the ODF scan plugin.)

kerimfriedman · October 17, 2021

So it seems Ulysses is not optimal for this. Zettler looks promising though. Instructions here: https://docs.zettlr.com/en/academic/citations/