You can easily add an abstract, table of contents, and evaluation to each reference. All three can be found on the Content tab.

You can either write an abstract yourself or add an existing abstract (for example, from the publisher's website, if the reference is a book).

On the webpage, highlight the text of the abstract. To add the abstract to the current reference in your Citavi project, right-click the selection, click Citavi Picker, and click Add selection …as abstract. To add the abstract's source, click Selection and URL to Clipboard.

Next, paste the contents of the Clipboard into the Abstract field. (For example, by right-clicking and clicking Paste.)

The URL is pasted directly below the text of the abstract.

Increasingly, library catalogs include a book's table of contents as a PDF file. You can often copy this information from the PDF. You may want to change the → screen layout to better view the PDF in the preview pane.

Highlight the desired text, click the Abstract arrow and then click Table of contents.

Often you may need to fix text copied from PDFs, since line breaks cannot be correctly copied. You can easily remove these unwanted line breaks by pressing Ctrl+Shift+Spacebar.

Now that looks a lot better, doesn't it?

You can use stars to quickly rate a reference. To apply two stars, for example, click the second star from the left. You can also right-click and select the star rating.

Instead of, or in addition to, using star ratings, you can also compose a detailed evaluation.

You can also add notes to a reference. Notes have a very loose relationship to your reference and are therefore not shown by default. To show the Notes field, on the Reference tab, click More fields.

Select the Notes checkbox to add the Notes field to the Reference tab.

Type your note in the Notes field.
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