Adding Thoughts

The thoughts feature in Citavi lets you save and manage comments and explanations about any reference, topic, or project you are working on. By assigning categories to thoughts, you can create a web of relationships that can help you structure your ideas and arguments. We recommend using the Knowledge Organizer to record your thoughts.

If you have assigned a category to a quotation, you can place a thought directly after it in the list of quotations. If a quotation or group of quotations does not have any categories assigned to it, then thoughts will be added to the end of the No categories list. Please note that these uncategorized thoughts and quotations cannot be sorted.

Adding a Text Thought

1.In the Reference Editor or Knowledge Organizer, click Thought in the toolbar, or press Ctrl+I.

2.Enter your thoughts into the window that opens.

3.In the Core Statement field, type a concise formulation of the central idea of the thought.

4.In the Keywords field, apply keywords that describe the main idea of the thought.

5.In the Categories field, assign one or more categories that help establish relationships with other quotations or thoughts.

6.The Modified field will automatically update with your initials and the date. Click OK to finish.

Adding an Image or File Thought

1.In the toolbar, click the arrow next to Thought and then click Image or file, or press Ctrl+Shift+I.

2.Click Add file.

3.Locate the file on your computer. Citavi will insert the file location in the Path field.

4.Complete the rest of the fields. Enter a Caption for later publication and a longer Description for your own use. Apply Keywords and assign Categories as necessary. Click OK to finish.

Double-click the preview image to open the original file in the default program. To delete the image, click to select it and then on the Edit menu, click Delete.

Editing a Thought

1.Switch to the Knowledge Organizer.

2.Double-click the thought you want to edit. You can also right-click it and select Edit on the shortcut menu.

3.Edit the fields you want to change and click OK to finish.

Copying a Thought to Another Project

1.Switch to the Knowledge Organizer.

2.Click a thought to select it. (To select multiple thoughts, hold the Ctrl key and click each thought.)

3.Right-click a selected thought, and then click Copy, or press Ctrl+C.

4.Switch to the project you want to add the thought to and switch to the Knowledge Organizer.

5.Press Ctrl+V to insert the thought.

URL for this page: http://manual.citavi.com/en/?adding_thoughts.htm (Last updated: 14.06.2011 15:35:58)
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