Short Answer
Yes — Obsidian is plain Markdown under the hood, and Pandoc handles the Markdown → LaTeX conversion well for most academic writing.
Detailed Answer
If you keep your thesis in an Obsidian vault and use the Obsidian Pandoc plugin (or export the vault and run Pandoc manually), you get a clean round-trip into LaTeX. The main gotchas are: (1) figures need to live in a folder Pandoc can find, (2) citations are best handled with Pandoc citeproc and a `.bib` file, and (3) complex LaTeX-specific constructs (TikZ, custom theorem environments) need raw LaTeX passes. I've written two theses this way. The win is that your notes, literature review, and the thesis itself are all in the same place, so when the thesis is done, you have a permanent knowledge base that survives the document.
No answers yet
Be the first to answer this question!
Sign in to post an answer