Feature request: Magic citations as in papers
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I told you L&L had no interest. Turns out there a vocal group of Stokholm Syndrome Scrivener users too.
You can then use https://github.com/Juris-M/zotero-odf-scan-plugin to insert "scanable citation" if you want to keep more flexibility.
The L&L forums are of course not representative of all Scrivener users or even of the devs (even if some of the users there seem to think they are), but the most fiery opponents remind me of myself when stress peels away the thin protective layer and my autism asserts itself. "this is different! different is bad! IMO it's hard and unnecessary anyhow. what are we talking about again?!".
Sounds like we'll have another island in the sea of knowledge. Better than naught, I guess.
In any case, if it's electron based and allows plugins, merging in picker + pandoc workflow and eschewing it's built-in ref mgr should be possible in principle, depending on how much we'd have to fight off the internal ref mgr. It will take a while before anything emerges at all, nothing is ready for download quite yet.
Side note: We actually kind of use Zotero/JM docs in that way here---Juris-M has a nice little setting that I can use to bind a supervisee's document to a shared library. Any refresh or insert to the document resets references in it to point at a shared library, creating them if necessary. Makes critiques of referencing a breeze, and works without access to the original source of the inserted refs (My Library or wherever).
The main problem I have with such editor + ref mgr systems is that they are geared towards their own editor, and consequently anything else (such as bibtex) is either ill supported or not supported. It also means that other amenities that can be added to the bare function of managing refs (like importing from websites, everything that zotfile does, etc) falls to the wayside .
Meh.
Anyhow, I doubt I'm the target demographic. I like git for versioning, and I don't actually mind writing latex code (even though I wouldn't half mind a GUI editor that could edit it for the occasional quick fix). I've looked into the XML it produces... yikes. Not meant to be edited by hand.