Annotating Texts

Many sources are available in PDF format. Citavi helps you work with these texts.

In Citavi you can analyze texts the same way you would on paper.

• If you just want to highlight an important section of a text with no additional commentary, you can use the yellow highlighter.
• If you want to quickly highlight a section that you might later want to cite, use the red highlighter.
• If you want to analyze a text passage more closely or save its exact wording or main ideas, you can save it as a direct quotation, indirect quotation, summary, or comment. Text can also be saved as an abstract, table of contents, or keyword.

Pick and choose from among these tools as you like. Highlight colors cannot be changed. This ensures that you can share annotations with others.

Contents:

• Selecting Text
• Highlighting Only (Yellow Highlights)
• Highlighting with Main Idea (Red Highlights)
• Adding Direct Quotations (Blue Highlights)
• Adding Indirect Quotations (Purple Highlights)
• Adding Summaries (Green Highlights)
• Adding Comments (Orange Highlights)
• Viewing Linked Sections of a PDF
• Understanding Layers
• Exporting PDF Annotations
• Annotation Troubleshooting