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Enhanced Linkrolls for Groups

Wed, 21 May 2008 07:13:18 -0000

enhancement |groups |idea |linkrolls | post by digiqr on 2008-05-21

Maybe nice idea:

Enhanced Linkrolls for Groups - not only just Group Widget with members count but true linkroll with list of bookmarks.
post by digiqr on 2008-05-21
I second that useful suggestion.

Mr. DiGi wrote:
> Maybe nice idea:
>
> Enhanced Linkrolls for Groups - not only just Group Widget with members count but true linkroll with list of bookmarks.
post by scadwell on 2008-05-23
K. It was in the to do list.
post by joel on 2008-05-25

Drag&Drop vs. selecting text in Lists

Sat, 17 May 2008 10:45:15 -0000

idea |lists | post by digiqr on 2008-05-17

Drag&drop of items in lists is nice, but there are two problems.

1. It's impossible to select a text (from comments, title etc.)
2. We can't drag&drop more that one item (useful for bigger lists with headings)

Perfect solution of this troubles is in Google's Notebook. Small dragable side with editable content and support of multiselecting...
post by digiqr on 2008-05-17

New Toolbar coming sometime? (plus ideas)

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:02:40 -0000

diigo |idea |toolbar | post by soulgrind on 2008-03-19

I never come here, so apologies if this is something well known to everyone else. I've been using diigo for a year or so now (almost all from the toolbar) and its great. However I cant remember any new features or upgrades appearing. (i guess maybe movie clipping, but I never use that). I seem to vaguely remember that about 6-12 months ago when i was on these forums there was talk of toolbar beta testing... but i haven't heard of any update.

I really like diigo, but it'd be great to see a few new features.. after a few web2.0 sites failing on me (spurl, zooomr (effectively), etc..) I start to get a bit nervous when there aren't any updates for so long. Plus, a lot of other cool sites have appeared in the meantime.

Anyway, I don't want diigo to become totally bloated, but here are a few suggestions that'd really make things better for me.

General:
1-Ignore plurals. (so that if i tag things "book" and "books" I don't end up with 2 tags.
2-Sort by frequency of use (so that my daily used bookmarks "float to the top").
3-Favorites (starred items of whatever, which get priority in searches, ordering, etc..)
4-Really good antispam, cos thats whats killed a lot of other sites, but i'm sure you know that.
5-Prettier interface, more like magnolia. (diigo has way better functionality, but pretty interfaces get all the press coverage)

Toolbar:
(in general, more buttons directly on the toolbar, less options hidden in dropdowns)

1-Filters/Tags/Lists directly on the toolbar. (kinda like live bookmarks).
In particular, 1-click access to: most used, most recent, unread. Plus user definable tags/lists/groups.

2-Mark read from toolbar.
This goes with 1. If there is quick access to my unread items then there should be a quick way to mark them read. (i currently have to use the Read it later firefox extenstion, but that doesn't integrate with diigo. )

3-tag autocomplete from search box.
Ideally i could use the search box to enter tags, then press "Diigo" or "QuickD" to bookmark the page. (though this might make QuickD redundant, except as a way to mark it unread rather than read. )

4-Some of the search options direct on the toolbar.
In theory the diigo search options are great.. very customisable and for lots of sites. But i never remember to use them cos they are all hidden in a nested tree. If i could have "Web", "Bookmarks", "Blogs", "News", "more.." as direct buttons (with drop downs into the categories, and with me choosing which ones to show then i'd use it a lot more.

5-Highlighted text as bookmark comment. If I highlight some text before pressing "diigo" then put it in the comment box. Put a clear button incase i didn't mean to do it.

6-Integrated search results.
If i do a google or other search (from the diigo toolbar OR the firefox search box) that has matching pages in diigo then put a little box on the right of the google search results with links to those pages.

7-Favicons
Both on the toolbar and on the site.

8-BUT MOST IMPORTANT (almost forgot) = make middle click work right in firefox.
In all my other toolbars middle clicking opens results in a new tab (in the background for me, but that depends on the user's preferences). But on the diigo toolbar it overwrites my current tab. very annoying at times.

Additional:
Another idea I had that seemed like it'd fit great with diigo is Change Notifications.
I used to use changenotes.com for this (though only very occasionally), but recently i've wanted to monitor a few pages for changes and it seems to be so slow as to be unusable. There are a few other services out there that do it, but since diigo is already bookmarking, caching and highlighting the pages it seems like it'd be a pretty fitting addition to allow you to get updates (email, rss feed or on toobar) when the page (or only the content you have highlighted) changes.
AFAIK no other bookmarking site has change notices, but it seems like a great fit for social bookmarking. It'd only be an option, not for every bookmark/highlight.

lotsa thanks, tom

PS/ want any beta testers for the new toolbar, if there is one?
post by soulgrind on 2008-03-19

diigo button

Sat, 14 Jul 2007 22:54:39 -0000

idea | post by zahira on 2007-07-14

I was wondering if its possible to get one of those html code buttons that we can put on emails as signatures, web blog pages and ect... it would really help with advertising and getting our friends to check it out - or even just people we email or visit our web pages.

Thanks!
post by zahira on 2007-07-14

toolbar: open in new tab & private quickD

Fri, 13 Jul 2007 06:58:26 -0000

idea |suggest |toolbar | post by soulgrind on 2007-07-13

Few easy ideas to improve the toolbar:

1 - It'd be good if the menu options opened in a new tab.
In almost every other extension and toolbar, if i choose something like "feedback" it'd open in a new tab. With diigo it overwrites my current tab... very annoying. So I have to remember to open a new tab, click on it, and then click on the diigo menu options.

2 - Be nice to have an option to open bookmarks in a new tab by default as well.

3 - the option to make quickD bookmarks private by default. (but keep other bookmarks pubic by default).
If i'm just quicky tagging something to look at later, i probably don't need it made public.

Plus of course... favicons and the option to sort bookmarks by alpha and by frequency of use.
post by soulgrind on 2007-07-13
soulgrind wrote:
> Few easy ideas to improve the toolbar:
>
> 1 - It'd be good if the menu options opened in a new tab.
> In almost every other extension and toolbar, if i choose something like "feedback" it'd open in a new tab. With diigo it overwrites my current tab... very annoying. So I have to remember to open a new tab, click on it, and then click on the diigo menu options.
======> Agree. We will improve it.

> 2 - Be nice to have an option to open bookmarks in a new tab by default as well.
======> If we do it on diigo site , some IE6 users will feel it's hard to organize many opened IE windows. Actually, you can middle click or ctrl+ click to open it in a new tab.

> 3 - the option to make quickD bookmarks private by default. (but keep other bookmarks pubic by
>default).If i'm just quicky tagging something to look at later, i probably don't need it made public.
Agree, we will do it later.

> Plus of course... favicons and the option to sort bookmarks by alpha and by frequency of use.
====>Could you describe the some scenario in which you need to sort bookmarks by alpha?
For frequently accessed bookmarks, you can give them some tags and make them to show up in the “My bookmarks" toolbar menu.

Thanks.
post by joel on 2007-07-13

Communication via profle

Thu, 14 Jun 2007 03:04:56 -0000

communication |idea |social | post by loyola on 2007-06-14

Something which seems to work well on other sites is the ability to be able to leave comments on a user's profile page. Examples are http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Kevinalewis and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Loyola. This could add tremendous value here. It would enable discussions with a person, notes to a person as well as the ability to issue friend/group invites. It does seem to me to improve the social space.
post by loyola on 2007-06-14