jaykul wrote: > I've been using diigo to bookmark everything for a long time now, and I love the bookmark dialog, and the highlighting and note features, but I have to say ... I literally don't use ANY of the other features of the toolbar. In fact, I move that main button off the diigo toolbar and put int on my main toolbar -- and close the diigo toolbar altogether. > > More to the point, I actually use the Yahoo! Delicious bookmarks extension in Firefox. Yep, even though I bookmark everything through Diigo, I have the Diigo toolbar add things to Delicious -- and I'm rather frustrated about it. Because I use their toolbar to access my bookmarks, if I have to make changes to a bookmark (or delete an old one when I find the site I bookmarked is gone and replaced by URL campers) I end up making them on Delicious instead of Diigo, so my Diigo bookmarks are getting out of date! Anyway, I thought I would post a list of the things I "need" from this tool, in hopes that maybe I can stop using two services ;-) > > 1) Bookmarks Toolbar. Two Modes: > > 1.A) Recent Bookmarks: This should show the most recent bookmarks on the toolbar, not in a menu, and should allow filtering by tag(s). This lets me see the most recent 7 or 8 bookmarks on the toolbar, and should show a drop-down at the end so I can see the next most recent 20 or so (however many fit on the screen, at least). I use these bookmarks all the time when I bookmark something at home in the evening as a reminder to check it out during work hours (or vice versa). I realize this is *very* much like the "My Bookmarks" feature that's already in the tool, but having it on the toolbar serves as a visual reminder, and makes those most recent ones easier to access.
have you tried our " filtered bookmarks" button on the toolbar (which can also be dragged elsewhere) ? It provides some of the features you want above.
> > 1.B) Tag Groups: shows each tag (or tag union/intersection) I select as a button on the toolbar which produces a drop down (much like putting folders inside your bookmarks toolbar folder in firefox). Pretty much like above, each menu should show the most recent bookmarks in that tag or tags, and basically serves a similar purpose except with some organization. > > 2) Search in the sidebar. I can't stress enough how being able to search without opening the web page makes the difference between relying on the bookmark service and just using my own bookmarks folder (and/or google). It should search the local copy, ideally, so it's FAST. It should also have a split results view like the one Delicious' sidebar creates -- so when you do a search you see matching tags, and then you see bookmarks which match. It should also search EVERYTHING in the bookmark (tags, name, url, my comments...). Oh, and I should be able to order the results alphabetically or chronologically (by the order I bookmarked them).
in the new toolbar to come out in a few weeks, there will be a sidebar that meets most of these needs.
> > As a side note (I know I've said this before, but it bears repeating) I don't find the web search or highlighting options in the existing Diigo toolbar compelling -- they simply do not compare favorably to existing 3rd party extensions, and as a result they _detract_ from what is otherwise a very good extension (since I don't use, and can't get rid of, your search thing on my right-click menu, it's just annoyingly in the way).
we will make this optional in the right-click menu also. btw, if you do use a variety of search engines, you should experiment with our customizable search menu -- very handy.
jaykul wrote: > I should add that one of the huge things for Del.icio.us integration was that they support "keywords" on the bookmarks, because it lets me assign a single keyword to a specific URL (even script bookmarklets) and be able to type that work into the address bar and it works -- just like the "real" Firefox bookmarks.
started by Joel Bennett on 05 Oct 07
jaykul wrote:
> I've been using diigo to bookmark everything for a long time now, and I love the bookmark dialog, and the highlighting and note features, but I have to say ... I literally don't use ANY of the other features of the toolbar. In fact, I move that main button off the diigo toolbar and put int on my main toolbar -- and close the diigo toolbar altogether.
>
> More to the point, I actually use the Yahoo! Delicious bookmarks extension in Firefox. Yep, even though I bookmark everything through Diigo, I have the Diigo toolbar add things to Delicious -- and I'm rather frustrated about it. Because I use their toolbar to access my bookmarks, if I have to make changes to a bookmark (or delete an old one when I find the site I bookmarked is gone and replaced by URL campers) I end up making them on Delicious instead of Diigo, so my Diigo bookmarks are getting out of date! Anyway, I thought I would post a list of the things I "need" from this tool, in hopes that maybe I can stop using two services ;-)
>
> 1) Bookmarks Toolbar. Two Modes:
>
> 1.A) Recent Bookmarks: This should show the most recent bookmarks on the toolbar, not in a menu, and should allow filtering by tag(s). This lets me see the most recent 7 or 8 bookmarks on the toolbar, and should show a drop-down at the end so I can see the next most recent 20 or so (however many fit on the screen, at least). I use these bookmarks all the time when I bookmark something at home in the evening as a reminder to check it out during work hours (or vice versa). I realize this is *very* much like the "My Bookmarks" feature that's already in the tool, but having it on the toolbar serves as a visual reminder, and makes those most recent ones easier to access.
have you tried our " filtered bookmarks" button on the toolbar (which can also be dragged elsewhere) ? It provides some of the features you want above.
>
> 1.B) Tag Groups: shows each tag (or tag union/intersection) I select as a button on the toolbar which produces a drop down (much like putting folders inside your bookmarks toolbar folder in firefox). Pretty much like above, each menu should show the most recent bookmarks in that tag or tags, and basically serves a similar purpose except with some organization.
>
> 2) Search in the sidebar. I can't stress enough how being able to search without opening the web page makes the difference between relying on the bookmark service and just using my own bookmarks folder (and/or google). It should search the local copy, ideally, so it's FAST. It should also have a split results view like the one Delicious' sidebar creates -- so when you do a search you see matching tags, and then you see bookmarks which match. It should also search EVERYTHING in the bookmark (tags, name, url, my comments...). Oh, and I should be able to order the results alphabetically or chronologically (by the order I bookmarked them).
in the new toolbar to come out in a few weeks, there will be a sidebar that meets most of these needs.
>
> As a side note (I know I've said this before, but it bears repeating) I don't find the web search or highlighting options in the existing Diigo toolbar compelling -- they simply do not compare favorably to existing 3rd party extensions, and as a result they _detract_ from what is otherwise a very good extension (since I don't use, and can't get rid of, your search thing on my right-click menu, it's just annoyingly in the way).
we will make this optional in the right-click menu also. btw, if you do use a variety of search engines, you should experiment with our customizable search menu -- very handy.
jaykul wrote:
> I should add that one of the huge things for Del.icio.us integration was that they support "keywords" on the bookmarks, because it lets me assign a single keyword to a specific URL (even script bookmarklets) and be able to type that work into the address bar and it works -- just like the "real" Firefox bookmarks.