Concepts
How ZotLit connects Zotero data, Literature Notes, citations, and templates.
Background on how the pieces fit together. Read these in order if you are new to ZotLit.
Literature notes and the managed region
What is a literature note, and how does ZotLit update it without overwriting your writing?
How in-text citation rendering and navigation work
How does the Document Citation Set control formatting, references, and navigation?
How ZotLit connects to Zotero
How does ZotLit read your library and pick up changes?
How templates work
How does ZotLit decide what to render into a note?
Template Workbench
How can an agent edit templates and configure managed frontmatter through the Obsidian CLI?
JavaScript templates
What does the JavaScript Templates gate do, and when do you enable it?