Cite Wide 0.3.1 — Google AI pastes convert cleanly again
Google changed how its AI answers cite sources. 0.3.1 reads the new format, so pasted answers become clean, deduplicated footnotes again.
Paste a Google AI answer into Obsidian and get clean, stable footnotes again. Google changed how it cites sources; 0.3.1 reads the new format.
Requires Obsidian 1.13 or later, same as 0.3.0.
Why care?
Cite Wide's Paste LLM content command turns an AI answer's numbered citations into stable [^hex] footnotes, with each source defined underneath. Google recently stopped putting a source list at the end of its AI answers. Instead, every sentence ends with its own links, numbered from 1 each time. Pastes started arriving as raw brackets and URLs, with every citation flagged as missing its source. This release fixes that.
What's new
Google AI's new citation style converts to footnotes.
[1] (https://…), [2] (https://…)after a sentence becomes[^a1b2c3] [^d4e5f6], with one definition per source.One source, one footnote. Google repeats the same link under different numbers across sentences. Cite Wide recognizes the URL and uses one ID for it everywhere.
Google's
•bullets become markdown lists, so they render as lists.Both commands handle it: Paste LLM content, and Parse LLM citations on a note you've already pasted into.
Google's new format carries no page titles, so new footnotes start as the bare URL. Run Enrich citations afterward to fill in titles, authors, and publishers.
Under the hood
A pre-pass,
normalizeInlineUrlCitations, rewrites each citation group into the numeric form the existing parser already handles: an inline[n1, n2]plus one[n] [url](url)definition per distinct URL. The conversion pipeline itself is unchanged.New numbers start above any
[N]already present, so old- and new-format text in one paste can't collide. Text without the new groups passes through untouched.Tests: 121 (4 new, built from a real Gemini paste).
Version 0.3.0 → 0.3.1 across
manifest.json,package.json, andversions.json. Every release asset is attested:gh attestation verify main.js --repo lossless-group/cite-wide.
The Lossless Group plugin family
| Plugin | What it does |
| Cite Wide (this release) | Stable citations, canonical sources, and citation metadata that fills itself in |
| Image Gin | Recraft and Ideogram image generation in your own house style, stock search, ImageKit CDN, and a confirmation gate for every dropped image |
| Perplexed | Source-cited research from Perplexity, Claude, Perplexica, or LM Studio |
| Metafetch | OpenGraph metadata into note frontmatter |
Each plugin installs and works on its own. If Cite Wide saves you time, buy us a coffee.