Because there are current limitations on what is possible, and because any description of the workflow quickly gets bogged down in technicalities, here is an illustrated account of what an ideal workflow would look like. The good news is that we are very close to this being a reality, there are only a few hangups, but I hope that everyone working on any part of this workflow put some thought into the whole journey, because (all too often) optimizing one stage of the process creates difficulties for the next one. I’ll add some notes on these hangups in my page on roadblocks. (See here for technical details about how to set something like this up.
In this image you see the article “#CiteBlackWomen” being saved to my Zotero database, via the Zotero chrome plugin. Because Cultural Anthropology is an open access journal, the plugin also grabs the article PDF along with all the metadata.
The following image illustrates the result of the previous action, you don’t actually need to do anything here, so this is not an actual step in the process. Here we see the citation and PDF in my Zotero library.
In the next image we have invoked the search pallet for the Logseq Citation Manager plugin and searched for the citation we want to enter. This will create a page with a link to the item in Zotero as well as a link to the PDF. The Zotero entry will also magically create a link to the the page in Logseq.
