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furl import tag

started by Nele Noppe on 30 Nov 07
  • Nele Noppe
     
    Hello,

    I've been trying to import a large furl archive into diigo, but even though the import page says that my furl tags will be imported as well, they never appear in diigo (there's just no_tag). Does anyone know what might be the matter here?

    Thanks!
  • Daniel Gauthier
     
    Cornelia,

    I know that when i bookmark with Diigo to other accounts everything goes fine except for Furl.
    They don't recognize the tags that we give with Diigo.
    Can it be a vice-versa situation? Like tit for tat?
  • Steven Travers
     
    Hm, my guess is they aren't proactively doing anything like that, because they don't seem to be doing much at all over at Furl. They don't reply to support requests, and there are other lapses I've noticed. They seem uninterested, and I think they may be dying on the vine. So I'm guessing no. Hm. Wonder what's up over there.


    dantheman wrote:
    > Cornelia,
    >
    > I know that when i bookmark with Diigo to other accounts everything goes fine except for Furl.
    > They don't recognize the tags that we give with Diigo.
    > Can it be a vice-versa situation? Like tit for tat?
  • Daniel Gauthier
     
    Oh, i remember writing in to Furl a few years and they did eventually answer.
    They're not the only ones that seem to be or are really stagnant.
    Spurl seems to be going nowhere. No more support, no more plenty of things except for the bookmarking feature.

    Diigo is by far the most responsive and innovative at the present time!
  • Nele Noppe
     
    Dantheman,

    That's right, I've tried simultaneously bookmarking to furl with diigo, and it didn't work. I'd really like to move my furl archive to diigo, but it contains 3000+ elaborately tagged items that we use for work purposes -we simply haven't got the time go over each item again to assign tags anew. Diigo looks much cleaner and offers wonderful possibilities for collaboration that we're dying to try out, if we can just keep those furl tags...

    I've tried exporting the furl archive to other bookmarking services supported by diigo, thinking I might then import the items into diigo from there and keep the tags, but the furl tags simply refuse to come along to ANY other service. Agh. If anyone knows a way around this, please let me know!
  • Daniel Gauthier
     
    Cornelia,

    Seeing that you tried opening an account with del.icio.us or another, did you try all the options available in Furl, like to the ZIP archive one?
  • Nele Noppe
     
    I've been trying to combine the various furl options with various diigo-supported bookmarking services for about a day now, and nothing has worked so far. The furl tags simply don't come along, whatever option or bookmarking service I use. Hell, they don't come along even when I import a furl-generated netscape bookmarks file into Netscape itself. I can see the keywords in the source of the file, they're there, but nothing seems to import them. I wonder if anyone else has had any success exporting furl tags to services like del.icio.us or connotea?

    (I'm not sure how I could export the ZIP archive to any other service. It's just a bunch of html files -not a format that can be imported, is it?)
  • Daniel Gauthier
     
    Cornelia,

    Never give up!

    I just went over to Blinklist and they have a specific Furl import feature via their XML file.


    -Daniel
  • Nele Noppe
     
    Daniel,

    That actually worked, after replacing all the many many spaces in the Furl keywords with underscores -they became a mess otherwise. We're up and running at last. I have no words. If you ever need to know anything related to Japanese manga and/or the use thereof in education and on the web, drop a note and we'll give you anything you want ;)
  • Daniel Gauthier
     
    Cornelia,

    Was just thinking about you!
    Glad you found a workaround to your problem. Phew!
    Manga? Isn't that a fruit of sorts?

    If only my English and French were at par, then perhaps i would pick up some Japanese!

    ;)

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