I came across citar, and I am trying to use citar-org-roam to take notes on academic papers. I must be missing something about usage/configuration. I get "Make sure 'citar-notes-paths' and 'citar-file-note-extensions' are non-nil" when I try to use citar-open-notes. If I set the 'citar-notes-paths' variable, then citar creates normal notes without using the template defined above.
Here's what is in my init.el:
(use-package org-roam
:custom
(org-roam-directory "~/RoamNotes")
(org-roam-completion-everywhere t)
(org-roam-capture-templates
'(("d" "default" plain "%?"
:target (file+head "%<%Y%m%d%H%M%S>-${slug}.org"
"#+title: ${title}\n")
:unnarrowed t)
("n" "literature note" plain "* Heading\n %?"
:target (file+head "%(expand-file-name (or citar-org-roam-subdir \"\") org-roam-directory)/${citar-citekey}.org"
"#+title: ${citar-citekey} (${citar-date}). ${note-title}.\n#+created: %U\n#+last_modified: %U\n\n")
:unnarrowed t)))
:bind (("C-c n l" . org-roam-buffer-toggle)
("C-c n f" . org-roam-node-find)
("C-c n g" . org-roam-graph)
("C-c n i" . org-roam-node-insert)
("C-c n c" . org-roam-capture)
("C-c n j" . org-roam-dailies-capture-today)
:map org-mode-map
("C-M-i" . completion-at-point))
:config
(setq org-roam-node-display-template (concat "${title:*} " (propertize "${tags:10}" 'face 'org-tag)))
(org-roam-db-autosync-mode)
(require 'org-roam-protocol))
(use-package citar
:custom
(citar-bibliography '("~/bib/referencess.bib"))
:hook
(LaTeX-mode . citar-capf-setup)
(org-mode . citar-capf-setup))
(use-package citar-org-roam
:after (citar org-roam)
:config
(setq citar-org-roam-note-title-template "${author} - ${title}")
(setq citar-org-roam-capture-template-key "n")
(citar-org-roam-mode))
Thanks for any and all suggestions!
You may describe path for note in citar.el as you gave .bib file in references folder
When I tried to do that it was using citar (instead of citar-org-roam) to capture notes, and so things weren't formatted according to the capture template above.
Template is for org-roam, so your result is natural. Citar's note function is symbolic link and communicate to .bib file's note section. Even if the absence of org-roam, it will act. Then you need to link with citar's note functions with org-roam. In my case, im enough to use @citekey function in org-roam. But you will find citar-wiki in details.