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Too many features

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 05:59:29 -0000

advice |feature |feedback | post by tatofoo on 2008-09-01

Hello,

This seems like the place for suggestions so here is mine: diigo has too many features. I'm probably wrong and most people use all of the features, but for me stuff like: "my wall", "meet people", "lists", and some other doesn't make sense in an application that is focused in highlighting/bookmarks.

Or maybe, the problem is not the features but how they are presented. The first page I saw once I registered had like 5 boxes on the left side, 4 on the right, like 20 links on the top and with all that I felt a little bit overwhelmed by all these features.

So my suggestion probably should be: simplify the design.

Thanks.
post by tatofoo on 2008-09-01
Hi Eduardo,
Thanks for your suggestion. You have a good point and we'd like to do simplify the design. If you have some ideas on how to do it, please share with us :).
post by joel on 2008-09-01
I don't think there can be too many features in Diigo. Different people have different needs and so there will always be features that will be used by some and not by others.

IMO, it is always a matter of the interface. For example, MS Office never reduced its features, but especially with the newer versions, the interface design was completely overhauled to make the most often used features more easily accessible. I think Diigo is going the right way and has already made quite a lot of improvement in that respect.
post by ollitolli on 2008-09-02
hi!

Joel Liu wrote:

> If you have some ideas on how to do it, please share with us :).

first of all thank you for diigo, i like it and want to use it more often in the future. [which depends on some changes ...]

first of all please drop the menu-line containing 'groups', 'site communities' and 'tag communities' above. it is already available via the dropdown-menu 'communities'.

secondly drop your 'what's new'-page and the yellow link to it in the bottomline. april 4 is far away from new. - for featuring new topics use your blog and integrate that deeper into diigo.

best regards,

march.
post by marchs on 2008-09-03

Suggestion: 'Find & Replace' tags

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 03:40:12 -0000

feedback |suggestion | post by noelreid on 2008-07-13

Hi,

I would find it helpful to be able to replace certain badly-formed tags for new ones but there doesn't appear to be a method. I would be able to enter the current tag(s) in perhaps a pop-up and enter replacement tag(s).

Any takers, Diigo?
post by noelreid on 2008-07-13
Go to Home - My Tags - Edit...

Link just for you: http://www.diigo.com/cloud/Noelreid?sort=1

You can rename tags (and join if you type existing names)

Noel Reid wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would find it helpful to be able to replace certain badly-formed tags for new ones but there doesn't appear to be a method. I would be able to enter the current tag(s) in perhaps a pop-up and enter replacement tag(s).
>
> Any takers, Diigo?
post by digiqr on 2008-07-13

Join Get Satisfaction please!! :-)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:37:48 -0000

Hi diigo team,

please join your company profile at Get Satisfaction!

http://getsatisfaction.com/diigo

Get Satisfaction has got a lot of useful features for you and your users, which'll help you to help more easily and quickly! And in the future there will be a whole lot of statistics both for the single user and for the company itself! :)

I'm not a Get Satisfaction employee, but a happy and excited user! :)

Kind regards.
post by philipp_grunwald on 2008-07-04
Hi Philipp,

Thanks for the head-up. Will check it out. Hope it won't require us to do "double-duty" Q&A :-)

Do you know of any web2.0 sites that successfully use their features - would be nice to check out some "usecases" to get some ideas. thanks a lot!
post by maggie_diigo on 2008-07-06
Hi Maggie,

I do understand your thoughts about potential "double-duty" work.

Sorry that I won't list all the companies again, Firefox currently crashed and my post was gone. -.- Mozilla and Yahoo! are at Get Satisfaction and a lot of the little startups and web2.0 services too. :)
post by philipp_grunwald on 2008-07-06

Comments Requests Reccomendations

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:19:59 -0000

comments |discussion |features |feedback | post by zamiang on 2008-04-29

I have been using this bookmarking service for the past week, recommending it to friends and people at work and have come across some important criticisms. Some of these you may already be addressing.

I say this because I find this to be one of the most well engineered web apps I have seen....ever. It is extraordinarily thorough and well integrated into the older and competing technology that it seeks to replace. The usability is the issue.
Here are my criticisms (mostly visual)

-custom color scheme - I think that you can add something as simple as the last.fm 'paint it black button' or something as thorough as the netvibes interface to allow a user to feel at home in your space without affecting your branding. The web 2.0 blue is old. Your...pretty much web 3.0 anyway so have some 3.0 visual standards (whatever the hell that means)

-sorting - the ability to control how bookmarks are ordered (ie not by date). Ideally one could drag them up and down or place them in tabs via a drag.

-date - the exact hours ago that I bookmarked a site is extraordinarily irrelevant 99% of the time. Please allow the removal of this information.

-pictures- a little screen shot of the web page next to the bookmark as a custom option. A bit like twine, but you can do better.

-toolbar- add multiple pages of bookmarks. I don't want to go back to diigo to go to older bookmarks.

-ability to send bookmarks w/o a firefox plugin. (again like twine) but please not like twine. It will have to happen for you to tap into that user base. Which may be small (people who use IE or Safari etc but try out beta web bookmarking apps) hmm…It will have to be made at some point.

thats it.
Please make this or something like this a sticky in your forums to assist in the development of your software.

reduce the user's cognitive load

thanks for reading
-b
post by zamiang on 2008-04-29
Brennan,

Thanks for your thoughtful post, kind words, and feedback. Glad that you found diigo useful and sharing it with others! Please see comment below.

Brennan Moore wrote:
> I have been using this bookmarking service for the past week, recommending it to friends and people at work and have come across some important criticisms. Some of these you may already be addressing.
>
> I say this because I find this to be one of the most well engineered web apps I have seen....ever. It is extraordinarily thorough and well integrated into the older and competing technology that it seeks to replace.

== > Wow! thanks!

The usability is the issue.
> Here are my criticisms (mostly visual)
>
> -custom color scheme - I think that you can add something as simple as the last.fm 'paint it black button' or something as thorough as the netvibes interface to allow a user to feel at home in your space without affecting your branding. The web 2.0 blue is old. Your...pretty much web 3.0 anyway so have some 3.0 visual standards (whatever the hell that means)

== > Yes - on our to-do. would be nice :-)

> -sorting - the ability to control how bookmarks are ordered (ie not by date).

== > Diigo already offers several sorting options - (unread, privacy, untagged, etc.)

Ideally one could drag them up and down or place them in tabs via a drag.

== > What tabs? Please elaborate more on exactly how you envision it and is there an UI example somewhere? Many people have lots of bookmarks, strictly dragging the order within one page is not too effective. Have you checked out our LIST function yet? Not only it helps you to organize the collection better, over there we do support the drag order since the #s of bookmarks is much easier to manage http://help.diigo.com/How-To_Guide/Lists

>
> -date - the exact hours ago that I bookmarked a site is extraordinarily irrelevant 99% of the time. Please allow the removal of this information.

== > we use clock to track the current day bookmarking activities to assist the community "Just In" section. Once a saved bookmark past the 24 hrs line, it becomes "date". It's the same placement as date.

> -pictures- a little screen shot of the web page next to the bookmark as a custom option. A bit like twine, but you can do better.

== > thumbnail? again, this is a personal UI preference issue. Some users like them, some think those thumbnails are too small to provide really valuable info but end up cluttered the page. Hard to please all :-)

It's possible that we can consider adding this support in the premium account, if there is indeed enough demand for it.

>
> -toolbar- add multiple pages of bookmarks. I don't want to go back to diigo to go to older bookmarks.

== > How? please elaborate

> -ability to send bookmarks w/o a firefox plugin. (again like twine) but please not like twine. It will have to happen for you to tap into that user base. Which may be small (people who use IE or Safari etc but try out beta web bookmarking apps) hmm…It will have to be made at some point.

== > yes. coming. By the way, diigolet (bookmarket) is already available.

>
> thats it.
> Please make this or something like this a sticky in your forums to assist in the development of your software.

== > ?
post by maggie_diigo on 2008-05-01
I apologize for not being entirely clear

the tabs-
much like how you can create folders in Firefox in your bookmarks toolbar. It is mostly a use ability and convenience concern. Just another means of organizing bookmarks quickly and easily. I realize that this can already be done through groups but the physicality of dragging things to a folder for organization is very standardized and intuitive. It feels quicker than having to manually label everything Basically a drag to an auto group space could potentially be created in an ajax script.
-How I envision this is a section to the right of the bookmarks where one could drag a bookmark into a folder then access that folder via a drop down tab

sticky- in a message board, is a topic that is locked at the top, so that there aren't lots of separate topics about basically the same thing.

in the diigo sidebar-
-at the bottom have 'page 2' , 'next page'
-and the option to eliminate the viewing of the date. I realize the date is important for organization but I already know bookmarks are sorted by date. When i am searching for a bookmark the time i bookmarked it is rarely of any use, so why do i need to see it…

bookmarklet-
i was unaware of this, thanks!

sorting-
a manual sort. move a bookmark one up or down with a little button. These applications are commonly used to show clients website examples. So usually we will make a page, group or account for them to brows competitive or conceptually similar pages. It is helpful to be able to manually reorder them.

pictures-
yea kinda unnecessary and i see the criticism that its far too bandwidth heavy and problematic.

thanks much
-b
post by zamiang on 2008-05-01