Research Assistant

Research Assistant is an Obsidian plugin that helps you search/link and work on scholarly articles more effectively.

Usage

This plugin has two commands:

1. X
2. Y

Demo

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How it works

Plugins uses OpenAlex api to search for research papers.

Installation

From github

1. Go to the Releases page.
2. Download the latest obsidian-research-assistant-${version}.zip.
3. Extract its contents.
4. Move the contents into /your-vault/.obsidian/plugins/research-assistant-linker/.
5. Enable the plugin in Obsidian:
   • Open Obsidian, go to Settings > Community Plugins.
   • Make sure Restricted mode is off.
   • Search installed plugins for research-assistant.
   • Click Enable.

From within Obsidian

You can install this plugin within Obsidian by doing the following:

1. Open Settings > Community plugins.
2. Make sure Restricted mode is off.
3. Click Browse.
4. Search for Research Assistant.
5. Click Install.
6. Once installed, click Enable.

For development

Compilation

1. Clone this repo inside path/to/your/dev/vault/.obsidian/plugins.
2. npm i or yarn to install dependencies
3. npm run build to compile, or npm run dev to start compilation in watch mode.

Roadmap

• First release
• Add paper search

FAQs

1. Why is email(optional) asked in settings?
   We use OpenAlex API for fetching metadata. Their API is rate limited. If you add your email in the request, your requests goes into polite pool which has much faster and more consistent response times.

Recommendations

Acknowledgement

1. Thanks to OpenAlex team for providing free for use API over scholarly works.
2. Thanks to Obsidian team for upholding malleability in the product that allows people to add and share new features without hassle.