Re: Could a citation act as a link, or a link to be exported as a citation?

["Bruce D'Arcus" <bdarcus@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Jun 7, 2021 at 3:02 AM Ypo <ypuntot@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I've been reading you about cites. Conversation is above my head, but just in case it could be helpful, I would like to address a frequent problem in the workflow of taking notes, that advanced users suffer too.
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> When taking notes, it's usual to make some bibliographical references in one file and some related notes in a different file. I link both using internal links, but it can't be exported directly as a bibliography, which would be cool indeed.
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> Could a citation act as a link, or a link to be exported as a citation?

In general, a citation is conceptually a kind of specialized link.

And org-ref and now org-cite is designed around the possibility of
attaching actions to those citations. So, for example:

> An example, could the link "[[id:20210607T083216.726761][...]]" be substituted by a cite, that takes you to the reference?

The oc-basic processor has an at-point function that will do just
this, if by "reference" you mean the bibtex (and maybe ultimately csl
json) source entry.

Have you looked at org-roam and org-roam-bibtex?

If not, that might give you some ideas, as it heavily relies on org
links, but also has support for citations.

Plans there are to support org-cite, BTW.

Bruce