Feature request: include Zotero URI in export

I have extracted this from #7 as you have now implemented BBT’s Citekey.

Given that the Zotero unique id is - I assume? - part of the standard metadata, would it be relatively easy to include that in your metadata record? This links Roam and Zotero without the need to install any Zotero extensions (and BBT is a pretty heavyweight extension!).

The key can be used from within Roam with, e.g. zotero://select/library/items/9PFEWRDE if Zotero is installed, or https://www.zotero.org/users/<userid>/items/9PFEWRDE via the web.

This link back to the original, full, record in Zotero would be very useful to make use of Zotero’s functions re formatting for citations and bibliographies, exploring related items, checking on metadata not in the Roam record, etc.).

(In the Zotero record I put the link back to the relevant page in Roam for easy round-tripping).

If you need more information please let me know.

[richardlm]

Yes. I considered using the URL field in the metadata block but that is often populated with a link to the publisher’s site so I use Notes for other URLs: primarily the library catalogue permalink, but now also the Roam page.

[richardlm]

I’m adding this comment to #11 even though it is closed, as it concerns the implementation - happy to transfer to new issue if you prefer.

Firstly, I really like the way that zotero-roam-export enhances the workflow between Zotero and Roam without the need to use any add-ons - it is immensely useful!

My comment is on the ‘Zotero links’. The three types of link work as expected for me:

• Local library: open item record in local Zotero at the item’s ‘Info’ tab
• Web library: open item record in web Zotero at the item’s ‘Info’ tab
• “file name of PDF attachment.pdf”: opens the PDF file in the default PDF reader

However, in my case, I often have the same PDF stored in two places:

• Zotero-controlled storage (which in my case is webdav, but could be Zotero storage) - an attachment that Zotero calls “Stored copy of file” and is the primary copy.
• Local storage, as a backup / failsafe if no internet - what Zotero calls “Link to file”.

zotero-roam-export provides links to both, which is good and expected behaviour, but they look identical so I don’t know which is the main (Zotero-controlled) copy.

Is it possible to differentiate these in the metadata presentation? If not, I could go through renaming one set but I would rather not.

Thanks again for this very helpful tool.