The first chapter of every Cranium and Synapse document is the Summary chapter. The chapter contains only a single page on which information is presented describing the document and its contents.

Because the Summary Chapter contains only one page, it does not have and does not need an identifier pane. The data pane contains several sections presenting titles, information, library links, notes and associated documents.

• Used to record information describing the document. You should always enter values for the document's titles and description. The Document Information Section is often used to summarize the document's contents.
• Used to record information that will be used throughout the document, e.g., library locations and internet search queries.
• Used to record external document's associated with the current Cranium or Synapse document, e.g., project reports, exported files, spreadsheets, etc.

The chapter's datapane is divided into six main sections:

Section	Description
Document Titles Section	contains fields managing the document's title, subtitle and version. These fields can contain any text value.
Document Information Section	contains a single large field managing general information about the document. Generally this field is used to summarize the document's contents.
Libraries Locations Section	contains a single field listing Library Names and Library Locations. These entries enable you to flexibly store pathnames of references and associated documents
Search Terms Section	contains internet queries that can be executed from many property fields within Cranium and Synapse
General Notes Section	used to store any general notes about the current document
Associated Documents Section	used to store links to any documents associated with the current document.

The Summary chapter has commands for reporting properties. These commands are available from the chapter's Commands menu.

• Report Summary Properties: activates the Report Properties Dialog that enables you to select attributes to add to an open Report Document. (Also see documentation on Reporting Properties.
• Show Valued Properties: activates the Valued Properties Dialog: which lists the Summary Chapter properties that have one or more values.

The menubar provides numerous other commands for navigation, bookmarking, file operations, units conversion, etc. See the documentation on Common Commands for details.

Additional documentation on displaying, editing, copying and pasting property values can be found in the introductory documentation listed in the Related Documentation section below.

Topic	Description
Getting Started using Synapse	provides a quick tour of Synapse's capabilities including examples of chemical product design.
Getting Started using Cranium	provides a quick tour of Cranium's capabilities including a discussion of structure editing.
Estimating Chemical Properties	a short video demonstrating how to estimate the physical properties of chemicals using either Synapse or Cranium.
Estimating Mixture Properties	a short video demonstrating how to estimate the physical properties of mixtures using either Synapse or Cranium.