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24 alternatives to I built an Obsidian plugin to create notes from BibTeX

With this plugin you can create literature notes from BibTeX entries, display formatted reference lists, and instantly generate citations.

This Obsidian plugin helps users work with academic research by converting BibTeX entries into literature notes, generating formatted reference lists, and creating citations within their vault. It is designed for… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier. I built an Obsidian plugin to create notes from BibTeX launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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Obsidian Canvas – An infinite space for your ideas▲1,380
Obsidian Canvas gives you infinite space to research, brainstorm, diagram, and lay out your ideas.
2022 · obsidian.md · its alternatives →
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Obsidian for Mobile – Plain-text knowledge base on the go▲760
Obsidian Mobile brings the power of our desktop app to your mobile devices.
2021 · obsidian.md · its alternatives →
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PodNotes▲14
Plugin for Obsidian helping you write notes on podcasts.
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Ideaverse for Obsidian▲175
A Starter Kit to Manage Your Whole Life
2023 · start.linkingyourthinking.com · its alternatives →
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Obsidian to Notes▲137
Import your Obsidian Vault to Apple Notes
2025 · obsidiantonotes.com · its alternatives →
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Odin – the integration of LLMs with Obsidian note taking▲160
Contribute to memgraph/odin development by creating an account on GitHub.
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Open-Source Memex – Alternative Approach to Roam/Obsidian▲188
2020 · steveliu.co · its alternatives →
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Literature Review Synthesizer▲5
Synthesize academic notes into lit reviews with your LLM
May 2026 · ibrh96.gumroad.com · its alternatives →
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Calderafree▲195
Your Obsidian vault as a living profile and linked garden
10d ago · caldera.social · its alternatives →
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Obsidian Starter Kit▲43
A solid knowledge management system for Obsidian
2024 · developassion.gumroad.com · its alternatives →
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Ideaverse Pro▲325
Manage your whole life in Obsidian
2023 · linkingyourthinking.com · its alternatives →
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A highly opinionated, fully functional Obsidian vault▲258
A few months ago I noticed that I was quickly approaching my 10GB sync limit for my daily driver vault. I considered deprecating some of the heavier files and images, but I was worried how it would affect the integrity of my vault. Instead, I took the opportunity to think to myself -- what would the perfect vault look like? I began to write down some of the key philosophies and strategies I use in my driver vault which led to indispensable plugins, which led to more indispensable philosophies and on and on it went. I've chronicled these results into a fully working vault template that…
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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GPT3, stable-diffusion with templates in Obsidian▲12
Quickly format your notes with ChatGPT in Obsidian - different-ai/obsidian-ava
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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An AI Assistant for Obsidian▲11
Quickly format your notes with ChatGPT in Obsidian - different-ai/obsidian-ava
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Forms (Obsidian plugin)▲35
Publish forms and get responses in your Obsidian vault
2025 · community.obsidian.md · its alternatives →
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macOS Reminder Sync for Obsidian Tasks▲155
Greetings, I started using Obsidian and the brilliant Obsidian Tasks plugin to manage Tasks in my notes however it didn't quite work for me as I would lose track of Tasks when away from my laptop, and there are no reminders for Tasks so it's not easy to stay on top of things. I wrote my first macOS App to solve the problem; Reminder Sync for Obsidian. It periodically scans your Obsidian Vault for Tasks and creates Reminders for them in Reminders.app! Once your Tasks are created as Reminders they are synced through iCloud so they are also visible on iOS; this solves the main problem I had…
2024 · turquoisehexagon.co.uk · its alternatives →
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conotes▲57
Generate PDFs in Cornell notes format inside your browser
2021 · its alternatives →
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Fictionhub, a place to share fiction▲46
Obsidian to website in minutes
2015 · fictionhub.io · its alternatives →
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Reading Inbox Synthesizer▲4
Turn your Obsidian web clipping backlog into reading memory
Jun 2026 · community.obsidian.md · its alternatives →
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conotes 2.0▲79
Cornell notes as PDF
2022 · its alternatives →
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Actions for Obsidian▲77
30+ Shortcuts actions for working with Obsidian on macOS
2023 · its alternatives →
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Turn a paper's DOI into its full reference list (BibTeX/RIS, etc.)▲49
Convert academic paper references from DOI to BibTeX, RIS, EndNote and citation styles like APA, IEEE, Nature. Download formatted citations with one click.
2025 · references.mireklzicar.com · its alternatives →
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Obsidian▲3
Think clearly. Connect ideas. Own your knowledge.
Jul 2026 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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Open-Source Public Second Brain Built with Obsidian and Quartz▲17
My Public Second Brain (https://brain.sspaeti.com) is built with the help of a wonderful tool called Quartz (https://brain.sspaeti.com/quartz-publish-obsidian-vault/). Obsidian (https://brain.sspaeti.com/obsidian/) has become my favorite for note-takers, given its flexible and linked structure that closely mirrors our natural way of thinking. With Quartz, I was able to seamlessly publish my Obsidian notes to a public vault, providing the groundwork for my Public Second Brain. The journey of making this possible involved some scripting as…
2023 · its alternatives →

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