Critique a potential workflow for writing a scientific book (DT3 + Overleaf/Latex vs Scrivener)

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If you want something new you can use Quarto

Quarto - Creating a Book

This is markdown flavour that work nicely with Python/R, basicially an superset of pandoc (you can use VSCode to write code or even write text directly as markdown in indexed folder in Obsidian/Devonthink ); You could use there nice latex templates (however sometimes it needs a bit of tweaking), I courrently adapted a template and write my PhD thesis using this workflow

A nice tool for picking citations here

GitHub - chrisgrieser/alfred-bibtex-citation-picker: Citation picker &...

And this thread contains interesting ideas

Successful doctoral thesis using DT

In brief, I used Scrivener for writing the thesis text itself. I had already written quite a bit in Markdown using various text editors, including DT. I used DT for notes, especially reference notes. In terms of scripting, I mostly used it for pulling reference information across from reference managers (Bookends, Zotero). I also indexed all my reference PDFs in DT. I used DT partly to organise my information and thoughts, including idea notes and topic notes with references to other notes (sort…