Since Readwise uses jinja2 templating language, we can use the jinja filters to create a custom title given the metadata of a book or article.
Requires
- Readwise
- Obsidian
- Readwise plugin in Obsidian
In Zotero, citekeys are an informal citation key used as a title or citation upon export that is created from the metadata of a book or article.
I typically use something like <authorLastName><Title><Year>
For example: nietzscheBirthofTragedy1884
In Zotero’s Better BibTex plugin we can defined this using:
auth.lower + shorttitle(3,3) + year
To mimic this in Readwise we have to do some work to create our own title by stripping punctuation and whitespace.
In the “File name” section, use a custom filename with the following filters:
{{ author.split(' ') | last | lower if author|wordcount >=2 else author|lower}}{{ title|replace(' ', '')|replace('#','_')|replace('.','_')|replace('"', '')|replace("'", "")|replace(":", "-") }}{{ published_date|date('Y') }}
The result should come into Readwise as follows (note I emailed readwise support about having issues with the published_date coming in)
