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The Zotero application icon is on the left, and the Obsidian icon is on the right of the image. Below both app icons is the Nunjucks icon. There are two arrows, one from Zotero to Nunjunck and the other from Nunkunck to Obsidian.

Annotation Tutorial 3: Zotero - Obsidian Integration Advanced

Using the Nunjucks Template Language to Import Zotero Annotations into Obsidian
academic
obsidian
workflow
zotero
how-to
Here, I explain an advanced feature of the Obsidian Zotero Integration Plugin: How can annotation from Zotero documents be scraped and imported programmatically as a note into Obisidan?
2024-08-20
Peter Baumgartner
14 min
2024-08-21

The Zotero application icon is on the left, and the Obsidian icon is on the right of the image. Both icons have two arrows, one pointing from Zotero to Obsidian and the other from Obsidian to Zotero.

Annotation Tutorial 2: Integrating Zotero with Obsidian

Tutorial for an efficient academic workflow
academic
obsidian
workflow
zotero
how-to
How do you export Zotero annotations (= highlighted text and comments) from PDFs, ePUB eBooks, and website snapshots into Obsidian, and how do you go back from your Obsidian notes to the exact position of the annotation to (re)cover the context?
2024-08-12
Peter Baumgartner
11 min
2024-08-23

The screenshot shows different types of annotations with Zotero in a PDF. The page is divided horizontally into three parts. From left to right: a small sidebar (about 10% width) with the content of the annotations, the document with the annotations (about 70% width), and the context pane with metadata.

Annotation Tutorial 1: Using Zotero Version 7

What different types of annotations does Zotero 7 implement, and how are they applied?
how-to
tutorial
zotero
This post is the first part of a tutorial about academic workflow on annotations. The focus of this serial is the integration between Zotero and Obsidian. Here, I will explain how to use the different annotation possibilities Zotero version 7 offers.
2024-08-04
Peter Baumgartner
12 min
2024-08-21

Logo of the World Inequality Lab

How to use the World Inequality Database (WID)?

Accessing and utilizing data of the WID.world database.
inequality
research
WID
open-data
I plan to write blog articles about social inequality in Austria, my native country. To be innovative, I want to avoid repeating what other people (journalists, scientists)…
2024-07-27
Peter Baumgartner
21 min
2024-08-05

Seven different hands grab a slice of a salami pizza cut in eight different pieces.

Quarto Blog Tutorial 4: Shared Metadata

Share YAML metadata options across multiple documents
blog
how-to
quarto
tutorial
In this post I will explain one of the most important features of blog (or generally Quarto) projects: The ability to share YAML metadata options across multiple documents. Shared metadata can be defined at both the blog (project) and directory level.
2024-07-25
Peter Baumgartner
3 min
2024-07-25

Blog

Quarto Blog Tutorial 3: Default blog source code

Explaining generated default source code after initializing a Quarto Blog with RStudio
how-to
quarto
tutorial
In this article, I will explain and explore the source code that was automatically generated when I created my blog with RStudio as described in Initializing a Quarto Blog…
2024-07-24
Peter Baumgartner
14 min
2024-07-25

Decoration image showing the octocat logo of GitHub

Quarto Blog Tutorial 2: From Git to GitHub using RStudio

git
github
rstudio
tutorial
This post shows how to create the initial (first) Git commit using RStudio. I will initialize a GitHub repo, and push the content of the initial commit into the new repository.
2024-07-23
Peter Baumgartner
8 min
2024-07-25

RStudio new project wizard window with three options reading from the top: New Directory - Start a project in a brand new working directory; Existing Directory - Associate a project with an existing working directory; Version Control - Checkout a project from a version control repository.

Quarto Blog Tutorial 1: Initializing using RStudio

Creating a Quarto blog from scratch using RStudio. – A visual guide.
blog
quarto
rstudio
tutorial
Initializing a Quarto blog, explaining the generated key files and the starting content of the Quarto project file _quarto.yml and the blog homepage file index.qmd.
2024-07-22
Peter Baumgartner
8 min
2024-07-25

Scrabble pieces with the text 'Done is better than perfect'

Writing Blog Posts: New Attempt

New motivations for writing blog posts
blog
quarto
I planned to write at least ten articles within two months before I wanted to publish my new blog. I never reached this limit last year, guided wrongly by perfectionism.
2024-07-21
Peter Baumgartner
4 min
2024-07-21

Three classical greek pillars

Creating a column-based layout

Changing the Page Layout in Quarto
blog
quarto
how-to
Do you want to place two figures side by side or write text in parallel in different columns? The post describes four methods to turn part of your blog post into a column-based layout.
2023-05-07
Peter Baumgartner
8 min
2024-07-21

Git Logo

How to delete Git branches

The limits of RStudio with the pr_*() family of the {usethis} functions
git
github
how-to
The article explains how I finally succeeded in deleting different branches in Git. It turned out – contrary to my previous mental model – that there are not only two branches but three (local, remote origin, and local remote-tracking branch).
2023-05-05
Peter Baumgartner
4 min
2024-07-21

A photo of lead vocalist Jordan Pundik walking out of a restaurant holding a suitcase that reads the words 'NEW FOUND GLORY'. The words 'COMING HOME' appear in the bottom-left of the image.

Bye, Bye Hugo, Welcome Quarto!

My first blogging impressions with Quarto
blog
quarto
This is my first entry in a new blog powered by Quarto. After continuously struggling with a complex machinery (blogdown, Hugo, Wowchemy), I feel like coming home from a trip abroad!
2023-04-23
Peter Baumgartner
4 min
2024-07-21
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