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Antonio Montesinos

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started by Antonio Montesinos on 24 Dec 07
  • Antonio Montesinos
    #1 Antonio Montesinos on 24 Dec 07
     
    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
  • Wade Ren
    #2 Wade Ren on 25 Dec 07
     
    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.
  • Ellen H.
    #3 Ellen H. on 31 Dec 07
     
    Totally a must. *nodnod*
  • anonymous
    #4 anonymous on 10 Mar 08
     
    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 Ren
    #5 Wade Ren on 10 Mar 08
     
    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*
  • Antonio Montesinos
    #6 Antonio Montesinos on 11 Mar 08
     
    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.
  • Wade Ren
    #7 Wade Ren on 11 Mar 08
     
    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"
  • Antonio Montesinos
    #10 Antonio Montesinos on 12 Mar 08
     
    thanks ! :)

    It will be very useful, we will see it
  • Suzannah Claire
    #11 Suzannah Claire on 13 Mar 08
     
    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 ! :)
    >
    > It will be very useful, we will see it
  • Edward Rios
    #12 Edward Rios on 06 Apr 08
     
    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.
  • Trent Larson
    #13 Trent Larson on 06 Apr 08
     
    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.
  • Chris Lasher
    #14 Chris Lasher on 07 Apr 08
     
    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]"
  • Ankit Desai
    #15 Ankit Desai on 10 Apr 08
     
    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.
    >
    > 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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