What are citation keys and how can they be used?

[vicente]

This workflow is something we wish to implement, but not yet a feature we offer. As stated by Stefan above…

@stefan

The goal is to automatically generate and insert citation codes for use in Markdown (Bear, Ulysses, Notion, …) and other systems like Scrivener in a generic way.

Clearly, in such a workflow the last step would be to convert those codes to the final citations and bibliography.

…and by Jason in an earlier thread…

@jason

Yes: our Word integration will make use of a Paperpile desktop application for searching and adding references. Initially, it will work only with Word, but we will eventually add the ability to add citekeys, \cite commands, or similar to any text processor (through the clipboard).

… this is still very much a goal we’re moving towards.