Obsidian Plugin

Get citation recommendations as you write in Obsidian.

Requires Obsidian v1.0 or later (desktop)

What it does

• • Sidebar panel — recommendations appear in a side panel inside Obsidian
• • Cursor context — automatically extracts the text around your cursor as the query
• • Cloud-connected — searches your personal InCite library, no local setup needed
• • One-click insert — add citations directly into your document at the cursor
• • Evidence paragraphs — shows the most relevant passage from each recommended paper

Install

1. 1

   Download the zip file

   Click the download button above to get incite-obsidian.zip

2. 2

   Open your vault's plugins folder

   Navigate to .obsidian/plugins/ inside your vault folder. Create the plugins directory if it doesn't exist.

3. 3

   Create a folder and extract

   Create a folder called incite inside plugins/ and extract the zip contents into it

4. 4

   Enable the plugin

   Restart Obsidian, then go to Settings → Community Plugins and enable inCite

Setup

1. 1

   Open plugin settings

   Go to Settings → Community Plugins → inCite (gear icon)

2. 2

   Set API mode to Cloud

   Select "Cloud (inciteref.com)" from the API mode dropdown

3. 3

   Enter your API token

   Log in and generate a token on your account page, then paste it into the token field

4. 4

   Test the connection

   Click "Test" to verify everything works