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Hi everyone. My name is José and I'm new in diigo and in social bookmarking. I was trying to bookmark some of my favorite pdf online files, but diigo don't let me do it. Can someone help me with that? How can I do it?
I appreciate any help. Thanks...
Hi Jose,
If the pdf file has an unique URL, then you can simply bookmark like normal webpages.
Welcome to the Diigo community!
Thank you Maggie for your fast answer, I really appreciate it. .
My question came from this issue. In the past three years I have found on the web a lot of interesting pdf literature and storage them in a flash drive. Beside, it’s very difficult to me to bookmark and manage them. What do you think of his: If anyone found a good pdf file online, it could be an advantage to bookmark it, highlight it and put sticky notes to it using diigo. It could be great, isn’t it?
I let in your consideration this matter.
Sincerely,
José
Indeed, except we're not in the business of uploading / storing the files :-)
My recommendation will be for you to locate such service to upload those files online elsewhere first. If they are good content, certainly would be great if you can share those resources with the community!
(I am not sure how they do it) but if a Google search brings up a pdf, you are normallly offered the option to convert the file to an HTML page. If you choose this option you can both bookmark and add annotations and sticky notes. Colleagues tell me that if the bookmark is shared, they can access the same comments
This suggests to me that the conversion to HTML is kept permanently on a server somewhere
Has anyone else tried this?
Andrew
I´ll tray... Thanks...
To bookmark an online PDF file:
Click on "My Diigo" > "More actions" > "Add a bookmark".
Type the link to the PDF file in the "URL" field.
However, the simple bookmark can not include highlight.
I strongly accept the idea from j_enrique77. As I read a lot of documents in pdf format online. I wish I could mark in them. But html conversion has a great loss of information in the docu, such as formulas, pictures. So diigo + pdf-to-html is a sub-optimal solution as I think.
Some online pdf read and mark services privide the online marking ability. However, I think an integrated all-in-one service will be much better.
Wish such service come soon from diigo!
alternativo wrote:
> To bookmark an online PDF file:
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> Click on "My Diigo" > "More actions" > "Add a bookmark".
> Type the link to the PDF file in the "URL" field.
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I believe that is not within the scope of Diigo. They are working everyday to make its natural features (bookmarking, highlighting webpages, notes etc.) even better for us, and can't start working on such a complex thing from scratch. I understand that it'd be useful for many people, but you also have to understand that there are priorities. ;)
José Enrique
Maggie Tsai
André Felipe
Andrew Rosenthal
Kepler L