I find myself highlighting more text than I want to highlight, just because I want to capture the context in which the "meat" of the highlight appears, when I view highlights later in My Bookmarks or in a search.

Yes, I could go back to the original page and find the highlight, but that's slow and the page may have changed and may not be cached.

I suggest. on pages like My Bookmarks, a toggle button that turns on/off viewing of a bit of text before & after each highlight The "bit of text" could be a sentence or paragraph, or the heading above.

a feature suggestion: I use SiteDelta, a Firefox add-in to watch pages for changes. So I basically have a growing list of pages to be watched. But they are uncategorized. So I also tag them with Diigo.

How useful would it be to merge these functions, with a checkbox to 'watch this page' as I bookmark it? Very much like your own user forum feature that sends an email when pages are updated. (Though Site Delta goes farther, allowing me to specify *regions* of a page to watch)

It would certainly simplify my life.

I used to simultaneously bookmark to Furl, from Diigo. Is there any reason for me to transfer those links back to Diigo? I doubt it, but just curious.

I've made various customized searches with the great custom-search context menu function. I'd like to save the links in a text file. Any chance of adding that feature, maybe on your export page? or would you send my list to me?

I'd like to suggest that your excellent Custom Search would allow a search of more than one of the engines with a single click. From the context menu, the top or bottom item in a search category could be 'search all of these'--each search would open in a tab.


thanks!

I just exported to CSV format, opened the csv file in Excel. All looked well, until I began scrolling down a bit from the top, where I found highlights in the Title column. It seems to be a problem with multi-line highlights breaking into many cells. Any fix or workaround possible?

thanks!

I've been looking in vain for a guide to Diigo's internal search feature. Am I missing a help file or guide somewhere, similar to Google's, on how to:

-search using a partial tag
like job* to search for all tags containing job. I've experimented but can't find a way.

-search for phrases in basic search box
I see the option in Advanced, but in basic search, putting words in quotes (like google) doesn't work, unfortunately.

I love you guys, but frankly I'm annoyed... these are important features!

I hope these are features that used to work and will work again, once v3 matures.

thanks, Joel.

It's a shame there's no way to search substrings/partial tags in V3. That overly limits bookmarks returned, in my opinion, since it would be easy to bring up all partial matches, then allow for filtering out using the + tags feature.

Plus it messes up my system of tagging library-style, like this: "jobs--san_francisco". I can't search "jobs" and get all my "jobs--" type tags

Maybe using ~jobs (or jobs*) to signal partial matches would allow for advanced users to do this, without confusing others.

are there any exceptions to that? or any part of cached pages that are *not* cached?

thanks!

Joel Liu wrote:
> There is a Cached link in every bookmark item.

I second that. If nothing else, maybe there must be some scripting app out there that can periodically go get a new export. I just don't know the app ;-)


ezuk - wrote:
> Hello,
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> I know I can export the bookmarks in all sorts of formats. That's cool.
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> However, how can I automate the process? How can I have a backup zip of my bookmarks emailed to me periodically?

I like to have a gray background in Firefox, instead of blaring white for Google and other pages. I'm using a plugin called Accessibar to do that. But when I do, Diigo highlights don't show up!



Any workaround you can think of to have my gray background and highlights too?



thanks!

There was discussion a year ago about pdf support--being able to highlight pdf files and search the highlights in diigo and/or making Acrobat highlights into diigo highlights. That would be SO useful to me.

A workaround I use is to convert to html with pdfDownload or google's cache feature, but this has its problems.

Any chance of a dedicated annotate-pdf feature coming along?

Unfortunately I got none of my highlights, using csv and rss a few minutes ago. This used to work actually. I have a csv export from Sept 07 that includes highlights. I hope this functionality will come back, because I'm with cuttingedge--it's nerve-wracking to wonder if my time spent annotating will be available in the future.

thanks!

cuttingedge wrote:
> Great!
> Joel, how will we know when you solve this and other things you are working on? Do we need to keep checking version history or do you post it on the appropriate threads such as this one? Nice work.
> Joel Liu wrote:
> > We are working on it now.

I just came across a comparison of Diigo to several similar services, "Streamline It Part I: Diigo or Bust" http://www.bretagdesigns.com/technologist/?p=531. Diigo came out on top, according to the author, lacking just one feature that another (Zotero ) offers: citation management, for scholarly researchers.

So, Maggie & Diigo crew, imagine lacking NONE of the key features of another service, by incorporating citation management! The database aspect is somewhat feasible with Diigo now, but rather awkward, by tagging an article 'author:smith_j', 'title:xxx', 'year:2004', etc. No way to make a bibliography from the tags, however. I haven't yet looked into exporting to Zotero, but how nice to have it all in one place!

keep up the good work

Nice ideas! It occurs to me that another, potentially very powerful, option would be to add "simultaneous bookmark to Zotero" to Diigo, along with del.icio.us, etc. This would allow use of Zotero's citation functions and Diigo's many others funcs--sort of a mash-up. It would beat an export solution by automating individual 'exports' with each new b'mark.

However, it would need to be a two-way sync to be truly useful--otherwise it would create more versions (and more crazy-making!)

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ted blizzard wrote:
> Thank you for the feedback Joel!
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> I would rather have the output come right from Diigo because then i am not playing with the export file. Like Zotero the output would be so fast and we could write so much better.

can't find that functionality now ;-(

hi Maggie, is there a help topic somewhere comparing the various export formats, what they include, etc?

maggie_diigo wrote:
> Hi Sugardiigo,
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> That's a cute username.
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> Please check out http://www.diigo.com/tools/export
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> CSV format includes your annotation.

a belated thanks!

I see that csv and rss include the most info. I'll try both.

I'd love for my diigo bookmarks to be searchable by Google Desktop, so they'd pop-up as results and remind me I'd bookmarked something. Maybe by exporting and indexing, that will happen, but an auto-updating method would be even better.

thanks!



Mah Saito wrote:
> Hi, Davido.
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> We have tiphelp which you can see in Export page. - > [?]
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> IE Bookmark Format: Include url and title
> Netscape Bookmark Format: Include url,title and tags
> RSS Format: Include url,title,tags and comments and stiky notes
> CSV Format: Include url,title,tags and comments and stiky notes
> Delicious Format: Same as del.icio.us exporting format

Yes, support for local files would be great! All sorts of local files can be viewed in a browser, and it would be so great to tag, highlight, etc. them!

keep up the good work

cinayakoshka wrote:
> Why can't diigo store things separately for files on a hard drive, granted that they are still being viewed in the browser?

I third that. It's very handy to see the URLs.

oneeye wrote:
> Hi Noelreid,
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> It is not a bug, more like a missing feature. The unfiltered list of bookmarks shows the "more from" indicator. As soon as a tag filter is applied, you lose the indicator. I also, wish it was in all views!

The closest thing to 'batch' editing that I've found is going to Edit Tags (the list of all tags) and renaming one tag to another.

lenoxus wrote:
> Actually, I've been having similar problems - it seems that mass-editing tags with more than one word, or an underscore, isnt working…