telescope-zotero.nvim

List references from your local Zotero library and add them to a bib file.

This does not provide autompletion in the document itself, as this is handled by https://github.com/jmbuhr/cmp-pandoc-references for entries already in references.bib. The intended workflow separates already used references from new ones imported from Zotero via this new plugin.

Requirements

• Zotero
• Better Bib Tex

Setup

Add to your telescope config, e.g. in lazy.nvim

{
  'nvim-telescope/telescope.nvim',
  dependencies = {
    -- your other telescope extensions
    -- ...
    {
      'jmbuhr/telescope-zotero.nvim',
      dependencies = {
        { 'kkharji/sqlite.lua' },
      },
      -- options:
      -- to use the default opts:
      opts = {},
      -- to configure manually:
      -- config = function
      --   require'zotero'.setup{ <your options> }
      -- end,
    },
  },
  config = function()
    local telescope = require 'telescope'
    -- other telescope setup
    -- ...
    telescope.load_extension 'zotero'
  end
},

Default options: https://github.com/jmbuhr/telescope-zotero.nvim/blob/main/lua/zotero/init.lua#L12

Demo

Video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o5SkTW67do):

Inspiration

This extension is inspired by the following plugins that all do an amazing job, but not quite what I need. Depending on your needs, you should have a look at those:

• zotcite provides omnicompletion for zotero items in Quarto, Rmarkdown etc., but requires additional dependencies and uses a custom pandoc lua filter instead of a references.bib file
• zotex.nvim is very close, but as a nvim-cmp completion source, which doesn't fit with the intended separation of concerns.

Special Thanks to @kkharji for the sqlite.lua extension!