Synthetic chemistry support #5
Description
Hello,
This is an incredible project. I am amazed at how good this project is compared to other FOSS ELNs.
However, I am a synthetic chemist. This project's defaults seem to be more friendly to bio/physics/analytica/echeml type people. The defaults don't make very much sense at all in my field.
I would love to see this project grow to support the needs of chemists and or other specific fields. Wouldn't it be great if upon setup you could select which field you are in for different sensible defaults? Or perhaps different releases featuring different default templates?
For my field of chemistry, we need:
- Chemical rendering
- Reactions
- Stoichiometry
For an example of how these things should work, look at Signals ELN. It is a perfect example of an ELN for chemists.
Chemical Rendering
This could be accomplished with the support of obsidian-chem. Perhaps when this support is enabled in the settings, the templates could automatically insert chemical drawings for defined chemicals and reactions.
Reactions
Similar to the current "Processes" but it should include reactants, products, solvents, and conditions. It should contain a reaction diagram (again using obsidian chem) and it should have a space for typing the procedure and notes.
Stoichiometry
This is absolutely essential for any chemist, but its a very difficult thing to implement. The way Signals notebook does it is perfect, but it's quite complex. Perhaps this could also be done by a helper plugin and enabled optionally to not add bloat to this project.
I have some limited experience with developing personal Obsidian plugins. With some pointers on how we could architect something like this, I could work on tackling this project if there is any interest.