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Citavi is a comprehensive reference-management and knowledge-organisation software designed to support the full lifecycle of academic writing and research. It allows users to collect and manage bibliographic references, annotate and tag PDF documents, structure ideas, plan tasks, and seamlessly insert formatted citations and bibliographies into a manuscript. 

Who it serves & how
Citavi is targeted at researchers, graduate students, academic authors, and teams who need a powerful tool to manage literature, ideas and writing workflows. Individuals can use it to stay organised while writing articles or theses, teams and institutions can use its collaborative features and cloud or server hosting for shared projects. For instance, a researcher can import references, tag quotes, outline a manuscript, and use Citavi to keep everything in sync.

Key features & value

• Reference management: Import from dozens of databases, handle various document types, and organise references by categories, tags. 
• Knowledge organisation & writing support: Extract quotes and images from PDFs, link them to ideas and categories, build outlines before writing. 
• Bibliography & citations: Over 10,000 citation styles available, integration with word processors to automatically format references. 
• Collaboration & storage options: Projects may be stored locally, on Citavi Cloud, or server-based for teams, offers flexibility for different lab setups. 
• Recent updates: Citavi 7 introduces AI-assisted features (e.g., smart paper discovery, annotation) as part of Lumivero’s development. 

Considerations

• Citavi is primarily Windows-based (though there is a web version), so Mac/Linux users may need to check compatibility. 
• Licensing likely required for full functionality, especially for teams, users should evaluate cost vs benefit in their context.
• As with any reference-management tool, successful use depends on good input discipline (metadata accuracy, consistent categorization) to realise the full benefit.