Re: research material organization
Ira,
Your best bet would be to use a bibliography management utility/app. There are tons out there - some available for free.
The two most popular ones though are RefWorks... usually University libraries make this available through their portal to their students. Check to see if your University has this. You can easily create an online account and start managing your references very effectively.
The one that I use is called Endnote. It is a life saver when you have to manage thousands of references.
Using these, you can input the citation information and also attach an abstract / summary. Subsequently, you can output your list of citations in various popular referencing formats / define your own... and even print out annotated bibliographies with references and summaries etc.