Delicious and Foxmarks allows users to enter both keywords AND tags. There is a difference between the two. Keywords allow users to type a set keyword into the address bar and then the browser takes the user to that site.
For example, If I wanted to quickly get to Diigo, I could assign "d" (without the quotes) as the Diggo keyword. I then enter "d" in the address bar and I'm automatically taken to the Diigo website. There is no typing out tags nor are there shortcuts required.
Can we do this in Diigo? While it's not 100% important, I'd say it's 95%. This would mean that I need to keep two bookmarking apps installed because I use keywords daily.
> enter "d" in the address bar and I'm automatically taken to the Diigo website.
I can't easily visualise this … do you mean that a text entry in the address bar of your browser is somehow intercepted by a complementary application (del.icio.us or Foxmarks or Diigo or Diigolet or whatever) and replaced, macro-like, with alternative text?
I imagine that such a feature within Diigo might conflict, for some users, with products that have similar functionality. Here for example I use TextExpander and Saft
- both of which are worth every penny.
However: neither TextExpander nor Saft are as portable as Diigo.
Postscript: my message crossed paths with Joel's :)
Graham Perrin wrote: > > enter "d" in the address bar and I'm automatically taken to the Diigo website. > > I can't easily visualise this … do you mean that a text entry in the address bar of your browser is somehow intercepted by a complementary application (del.icio.us or Foxmarks or Diigo or Diigolet or whatever) and replaced, macro-like, with alternative text?
Yes, but I should add that I am using Firefox. I cannot verify other browsers.
> I imagine that such a feature within Diigo might conflict, for some users, with products that have similar functionality. Here for example I use TextExpander and Saft
Perhaps, but these are features that for quite sometime have been offered by both Foxmarks AND Delicious (I believe Firefox also allows it without any bookmarking extensions installed) without much incident that I'm aware of . The thing is, a user isn't required to use it, but it's a fantastic feature.
In truth, as is well known to most Firefox users, conflicts between extensions can and do happen. The best fix to this is to warn the user and move on.
For example, If I wanted to quickly get to Diigo, I could assign "d" (without the quotes) as the Diggo keyword. I then enter "d" in the address bar and I'm automatically taken to the Diigo website. There is no typing out tags nor are there shortcuts required.
Can we do this in Diigo? While it's not 100% important, I'd say it's 95%. This would mean that I need to keep two bookmarking apps installed because I use keywords daily.
Could you show me how to add keyword(not tag) in delicious? I can't get this feature.
Thanks.
I can't easily visualise this … do you mean that a text entry in the address bar of your browser is somehow intercepted by a complementary application (del.icio.us or Foxmarks or Diigo or Diigolet or whatever) and replaced, macro-like, with alternative text?
I imagine that such a feature within Diigo might conflict, for some users, with products that have similar functionality. Here for example I use TextExpander and Saft
- both of which are worth every penny.
However: neither TextExpander nor Saft are as portable as Diigo.
Postscript: my message crossed paths with Joel's :)
> > enter "d" in the address bar and I'm automatically taken to the Diigo website.
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> I can't easily visualise this … do you mean that a text entry in the address bar of your browser is somehow intercepted by a complementary application (del.icio.us or Foxmarks or Diigo or Diigolet or whatever) and replaced, macro-like, with alternative text?
Yes, but I should add that I am using Firefox. I cannot verify other browsers.
> I imagine that such a feature within Diigo might conflict, for some users, with products that have similar functionality. Here for example I use TextExpander and Saft
Perhaps, but these are features that for quite sometime have been offered by both Foxmarks AND Delicious (I believe Firefox also allows it without any bookmarking extensions installed) without much incident that I'm aware of . The thing is, a user isn't required to use it, but it's a fantastic feature.
In truth, as is well known to most Firefox users, conflicts between extensions can and do happen. The best fix to this is to warn the user and move on.
Just my thought on that.
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