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Hi,
I use Diigo very often, and some times I would like to edit the link of a bookmark, but it is not possible and I talked about it from Diigo v2 forums. Does anybody more think that it should be a must for Diigo v3 ?
best,
Antonio
currently Diigo only allows you to edit the url while saving the bookmark. Once saved, the only way to edit the url is to delete the bookmark and save it again.
Totally a must. *nodnod*
I had some dialogue with support and also dialogue via the forums.
I had thought this was to be included in V3??
Definitely a serious requirement particularly if you have taken the time to tag and comment/highlight.
Delete and Re-add means wasting time redoing all this.
aquadragon1984 wrote:
> Totally a must. *nodnod*
This will cause some complexity that we are not sure it is really worth the trouble.
for example, if you have highlighted on a url, and then changes that url to another url, do you transfer those highlights to the new url? and if so, how do we know that highlight even exist on the new url?
can you share the scenarios under which you really want to edit the url?
windyn wrote:
> I had some dialogue with support and also dialogue via the forums.
>
> I had thought this was to be included in V3??
>
> Definitely a serious requirement particularly if you have taken the time to tag and comment/highlight.
>
> Delete and Re-add means wasting time redoing all this.
>
> aquadragon1984 wrote:
> > Totally a must. *nodnod*
wade wrote:
> This will cause some complexity that we are not sure it is really worth the trouble.
>
> for example, if you have highlighted on a url, and then changes that url to another url, do you transfer those highlights to the new url? and if so, how do we know that highlight even exist on the new url?
I assume that in situations like that it can be very complex, but the simple case I think everyone has happened is this. I am searching something, and find it inside a web, for example (www.oneweb.com/level1/level2/level3/example.htm). Ok... I like this web and make an quick bookmark of it, but what I really wanted to bookmark is the main level (www.oneweb.com), and not all the direction.
These ability to edit links would be very useful for links saved 'quickly', and after edit them to get only the main section, not ALL the direction, which a lot of times is not useful.
in the new toolbar version, you can easily remove a bookmark from the toolbar
So I think you will find "remove and re-bookmark" is just as easy as "edit"
wade wrote:
> in the new toolbar version, you can easily remove a bookmark from the toolbar
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> So I think you will find "remove and re-bookmark" is just as easy as "edit"
No. When I am taking quick bookmarks, I do not have time to edit them and get organized. Afterwards, when I, on Diigo's web, try to organize them, it would be VERY heavy to delete the links and create them again. And doing this through Diigo's toolbar would be necessary to enter again on that web pages.
The ability to edit links is implemented on most bookmarking services. I like Diigo, and I think should not be below others bookmarking services.
all right , seems like there is enough support -- added to to-do.
thanks ! :)
It will be very useful, we will see it
Also:
If i want to COMPLETELY remove my dependency on firefox bookmarks, there are bookmarks - generally that have java - that I want to put into Diigo. These are things like bookmarks with code that opens them in firefox's sidebar, and such. I could tag them all as @mycomputer and filter them and have them at my disposal.
So being able to edit the bookmark URL right away will allow me to use - and add - the bookmarks that i can only keep in firefox and let me work with diigo and diigo alone.
thoughts?
antomonte wrote:
> thanks ! :)
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> It will be very useful, we will see it
Thank you. I also share the exact same use case as Antonio, so I am really looking forward to this feature.
Wade Ren wrote:
> all right , seems like there is enough support -- added to to-do.
Good to hear. I could use this feature as well.
Wade Ren wrote:
> all right , seems like there is enough support -- added to to-do.
I think another use case would be where I access a blog article from an RSS feed, and the link contains something like www.foo.com/blog/post/1?rss=1; which I'll accidentally bookmark. What I really wanted to bookmark was www.foo.com/blog/post/1.
My advice for the development team would be to allow users to change the URL, but drop annotations/highlights for the page. Alert users with a pop-up, "You are changing the URL for this entry. YOU WILL LOSE ALL SAVED HIGHLIGHTS AND STICKY NOTES! Are you sure you wish to proceed? [Change URL] [Cancel]"
I too am not using Diigo simply because of the lack of Edit Link functionality. I agree with Chris' idea of how to deal with Saved Highlights and Sticky Notes. I think it makes a lot of sense.
Chris Lasher wrote:
> I think another use case would be where I access a blog article from an RSS feed, and the link contains something like www.foo.com/blog/post/1?rss=1; which I'll accidentally bookmark. What I really wanted to bookmark was www.foo.com/blog/post/1.
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> My advice for the development team would be to allow users to change the URL, but drop annotations/highlights for the page. Alert users with a pop-up, "You are changing the URL for this entry. YOU WILL LOSE ALL SAVED HIGHLIGHTS AND STICKY NOTES! Are you sure you wish to proceed? [Change URL] [Cancel]"
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