Citavi in everyday use

Posted by JJSlote
Jan 25, 2011 at 04:03 AM

dan7000 wrote:
>Evernote does exactly what Citavi does, if I’m understanding it right:
>- the content of the individual item appears in the right pane. (and can be viewed in a
>separate window, allowing the contents ofmultiple notes to be viewed at once)

The Citavi third pane displays not the single item, but stacked up, scrolling previews of whichever items you multiselect in the second pane. You can access an additional pane of previews in the floatable Publication Assistant. You’d edit any items you choose in separate windows, as you would in Evernote. But it’s usually easier to edit just the one note you want and use the preview panes to stack up the supporting material. Grouped scrolling previews mean less commitment to each supporting note, hence more spontaneous thought exploration with much less window wrangling.

But the Citavi editor needs to be more compact. And oddly, only the floating Publication Assistant preview pane enables text selection within a previewed knowledge item; the inline preview pane does not. I’ve requested both enhancements.