RefDaily

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by Chaeseung Lee

Sync papers, daily digests and research reports from RefDaily into your vault as Markdown notes. - This plugin has not been manually reviewed by Obsidian staff.

↓ 9 downloadsUpdated 4d agoMIT
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RefDaily

Sync papers, daily digests and research reports from RefDaily into your vault as Markdown notes.

RefDaily watches the literature for your research topics, summarizes what is new each day, and keeps a library of the papers you have collected. This plugin brings all of that into Obsidian, so the notes live next to your own writing and stay yours if you ever stop using the service.

What it creates

NoteContents
One note per paperTitle, authors, venue, year, DOI, abstract, the AI summary, and links back to the source
One note per daily digestThe day's new papers with the day's insights
One note per reportWeekly and monthly reviews, literature reviews, and the other analyses

Notes are written as plain Markdown with YAML frontmatter, so Dataview, graph view and your own templates all work on them. Nothing in a note depends on the plugin being installed.

Re-running a sync updates notes that already exist rather than duplicating them. A paper is matched by its DOI first, then by its RefDaily id, so renaming a note by hand does not break the link.

Setup

  1. Install and enable the plugin.
  2. Open Settings → RefDaily.
  3. Paste an API token. You generate one at refdaily.com under Settings → Integrations.
  4. Choose the folders each kind of note should go into, or keep the defaults.
  5. Run RefDaily: Sync now from the command palette.

Optionally turn on auto-sync to have it run on a schedule while Obsidian is open.

Settings

  • API token — identifies your RefDaily account. It is stored in the plugin's own data file inside your vault.
  • Folders — where papers, daily digests, weekly and monthly reviews, and reports are written. Missing folders are created.
  • Auto-sync — off by default. When on, syncs at the interval you choose.

Requirements

A RefDaily account. The free plan works; there is nothing in this plugin that needs a paid one.

Privacy

The plugin talks to refdaily.com and nowhere else, and only to fetch your own papers and reports. It sends no telemetry, and it reads nothing in your vault beyond the folders it writes to, which it reads in order to avoid creating a note twice.

Support

Issues and questions: github.com/lumirirone/obsidian-refdaily/issues Service and account questions: support@refdaily.com

License

MIT. See LICENSE.

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