It shows that it won't work and has it completely disabled. Is there any where I can download 3.1.5.5 again, which did work?

I second that! My most wished for feature, definitely.

Is there any way to exclude tags from a search? The more I use diigo, the more I find I need this--for instance, bookmarks from tag A but not tag B (ie, not also tagged B--to get a list of items tagged A, Tagged A and C, etc., but not A and B). The only option I can find in the advanced search is to exclude the word B everywhere--but I want some pages with the word B in them--just not if they are tagged B. Am I making sense?

If there is not currently a way to do this, I really hope one is implemented--as I said, it would be really useful.

Thank you so much! You really helped me out. I don't know how I missed the fact that we coulod use boolean operators. ^^;

Okay, I have no clue what is going on and I really need some help here.

I haven't installed any new extensions or messed with the settings or anything, but all of a sudden the toolbar has gone wild! (I use Firefox 2.0.0.14 and the latest toolbar version)

Errors:

1) I cannot see any of bookmarks or friends in the sidebar--bookmark field is blank, and friends tab says I have no friends, even though I do.

2) I am unable to signout of the toolbar through the toolbar, or use any other aspect of the toolbar--view my bookmarks, groups, etc. Doing any of those things gives me a 502 Bad Request page. However, I can still do all these things from the website, and if I sign out of the website, I sign out of the toolbar as well.

Signing out and then in does not help, nor does restarting Firefox, nor does uninstalling and reinstalling the toolbar, nor does restarting the computer.

A few days ago, it was even worse--the same errors I had now, only instead of the 502 error, I was getting 400 Bad Request, and every time a page loaded, any page, I got a pop-up that said to enter my username and password for 'restricted at http://preview.diigo.com. However, entering my username and password did nothing. However, that went away on it's own after a day or so (I was really busy at the time so I didn't get a chance to complain before it went away). But now it's doing this new thing!!

What do I do? I need my Diigo sidebar!

When I subscribe to my bookmarks via RSS, ALL the annotations on the public bookmarks show up in my reader--including the annotations I have marked private. Serious problem for me.

Any chance of this getting fixed soon?

I would like to know a little more about this as well. That way I could just type in the search I wanted instead of having to go into the advanced search window.

And is there any way to exclude tags from a search? The more I use diigo, the more I find I need this--for instance, bookmarks from tag A but not tag B (ie, not also tagged B--to get a list of items tagged A, Tagged A and C, etc., but not A and B). The only option I can find in the advanced search is to exclude the word B everywhere--but I want some pages with the word B in them--just not if they are tagged B. Am I making sense?

Krissa Randolph wrote:
> When I search for a term in my group bookmarks, I get weird results sometimes. For example, when I search for "underground railroad" I get a list of 2 bookmarks with the count "1-5 of 5" at the top of the list. I know that I have several bookmarks that contain this term.
>
> Also a request - I'd like to know more about the search function's logic, so I can decide how to construct my searches. Should I use boolean terms? Wildcards? Quotation marks? Does full-text search also include sticky notes and comments? This info in the help section would be useful.
>

I have restarted my Firefox several times since I have saved my customizations--the buttons are still not there. :( Do I need to do something special, or what?


Maggie Tsai wrote:
> Noted. In our to-do
>
> Meanwhile, here is a work-around: finish customize and save. Then restart your FF browser. It should work then.
>
> Also, here are some tips on how to customize the Diigo toolbar to save your desktop space

That doesn't work either. I don't mind waiting till it's fixed or anything, just wanted to let you know that the workarounds aren't working.

Joel Liu wrote:
> Sign out, then sign in diigo again.

Jose Luis Pajares wrote:

> And some other suggestions:
> - Tags grouping.

I would like this as well--like the delicious bundles. It's the only thing I really miss.

> About the profile page:
> - Change the name of 'favorite sites' box in my profile, did I
> marked as my favorites? No. So use 'top sites' instead.
> - The same for 'favorite lists', those should be (they are) 'My lists'.

I completely agree here. They aren't my favorites, and I'm not comfortable displaying them labeled as such.

Wade Ren wrote:

> Jose Luis Pajares wrote:
>
>> Other suggestions while starting to use v3 daily:
>> - 'My groups' tab in the new sidebar.
>
> ??

Like you have the bookmarks tab and the friends tab? I think that is what he is talking about. Might be useful.

Wade Ren wrote:

>> -screenshots would be nice, if used sparingly... such as
>> on the homepage or dashboard.
>
> quite a few requests on adding screencast, though I remain
> unconvinced that it is really beneficial since it increases page
> size , yet is still unreadable. Note we have "preview" feature.
> maybe we can add that the dashboard also.

I for one am totally against screenshots--they'll make pages load slower and take up screen space, making pages feel cluttered. If you can't tell what a page is by your tags and annotations, then you really need to tag and annotate better, IMHO.

My tags block is automatically collapsed when I load my page--is that a setting somehwre maybe?


Joel Bennett wrote:
> Yeah, I avoid your page too.
>
> Err, I mean ... it's slow for me too. Takes 16s just to download and over 10s on a refresh .... but around 20 seconds to actually finish struggling with the javascript enough to let me scroll with the mousewheel ;-)
>
> You want to see something REALLY annoying? In Firefox, open Pistos' user page, and try to scroll by clicking on the scrollbar gripper and dragging it.
>
> It must be the tags block, however -- because I (only? ha!) have about 1200, and it takes substantially less time to load, and the scrolling is much more responsive. Maybe it would be better to start that block collapsed, and load the data on demand when users click to open it...
>
> Incidentally --- try collapsing the Tags block, and then try again to scroll with the scrollbar -- much better, eh?

Wow, that does take forever!

Joel Bennett wrote:
> Ellen H. wrote:
> > My tags block is automatically collapsed when I load my page--is that a setting somehwre maybe?
>
> Wade Ren wrote:
> > how is your internet connection? I have over 1000 tags, it takes less than 1-2 seconds
>
> 1) YOUR OWN tag block always starts collapsed (but other people's don't), but the data is loaded regardless.
>
> 2) On my home PC, my 1200 tags load in a couple seconds easily ...
>
> But both of you .... try HIS page. http://www.diigo.com/user/pistos ... even on on my really beefy box at home, with Firefox 3 (beta), that page takes around 6 seconds (I don't know if they've improved this, or if this computer's that much better, or if it's Firefox 3 -- I can retest later if anyone wants to know) -- and I have no weird dragging glitches.

Firefox 2.0.0.13

Wade Ren wrote:
> wonder if the slowness is browser-dependent. which kind of browsers are you using?

I recently tried the customized search feature, and I absolutely fell in love with it.

There's just one problem--I don't want the highlight and word buttons after the search bar. I don't use them, and they take up valuable space. I am using Firefox 2.0.0.13. , so I figured it wouldn't be a problem. It's really easy to customize toolbars, so I just dragged the icons into the little holding area. Easy.

Except every time I use the search bar by typing in the box, they come back! Then I have to go to customize and remove them again. Which works--until the next time I type in a search. This doesn't happen when I use the context menu to search.

Is there anything I can do to stop this behavior? I really like the diigo search bar, and I don't want to switch back to Firefox's built in one, but this is buggin' the heck out of me!

Thanks for your response! Hopefully that deleting the input trick will make it more manageable. :)

Somebody might want to put that in the help documentation somewhere.

Arrix Z wrote:
> Thanks for your feedback. Normally, adding/removing a bookmark using the toolbar will automatically update the sidebar.
> There is a quick tip for you when you want to refresh manually. Leave the tags input empty and click the "Filter" button.

Thanks! *blush*
Believe me, I'm getting everybody I can into this--Diigo rocks. We will take over the internet, one delicious user at a time!

Question-why are both instances of "There is a quick tip for you when you want to refresh manually. Leave the tags input empty and click the "Filter" button." highlighted when I only highlighted the first? Only one annotation shows up on the sidebar and such, but both instances are show a highlight and give me the highlight pop-up menu on mouseover.

I agree with what everyone else is saying--not only is it not intuitive for certain things to be up on the file menu, but it would be much faster and easier to access them from the toolbar.

I am also loving V3. You guys did a great job!

Joel Liu wrote:
> We will consider it. However, if you remove it, it's not easy to access many useful links there, for example, your unread bookmarks.

Hopefully instead of just making it optional, you can add the drop down to the toolbar itself. :)

Whichever way you do, it won't matter to users who use the context menu only.

When I subscribe to my own bookmarks by rss, the annotations are included just fine--but only the public bookmarks. However, even the private annotations show up--actually a bit of a problem now that I think of it. But they do show up on RSS, if you subscribe.

cuttingedge wrote:
> I also tried RSS and it doesn't back annotations.
> This could be a deal breaker for me. If I invest
> huge amounts of time into annotating pages
> for research then I want to be sure I have them
> backed up.
>
>
> Joel Liu wrote:
> > Y, please try RSS format. We will look into the export issue later.

So, I am a bit confused about what exactly we are allowed to use as an avatar image. Currently the page says this: Do not upload a photo containing cartoons, celebrities, nudity, artwork or copyrighted image.

So, what it seems to mean is that I cannot upload anything but an actual picture of myself, since I can't upload any cartoons or artwork. Surely this can't be correct?

Also, what is the aspect ratio for avatars? I would hate to upload something and it get all squished or stretched.

@Soulgrind R
Thanks for answering my questions. :) You're right--it does seem a little strict.

@Joel Liu
Ahh, that would definitely make more sense. But what about things that are said by their creators to be free for use as avatars or for general reuse? Do those fall under the copyrighted image category?

Ok, Thanks. :)

Joel Liu wrote:
> > @Joel Liu
> > Ahh, that would definitely make more sense. But what about things that are said by their creators to be free for use as avatars or for general reuse? Do those fall under the copyrighted image category?
>
> No, we don't think those fall under the copyrighted image category. It's fair use.

I was wondering if the tagcloud for the forum should perhaps also be featured on the new topic page, so that one can see which tags are used the most. I know that there is an autocomplete feature when you start typing tags in, but that doesn't really help me when I'm trying to figure out what tags are appropriate and/or in common use in the forum I'm posting in. Who wants to be using the tag 'request' when everyone else is using 'requests'? Should I use 'pic', 'picture', 'pictures', 'image', 'images', etc.

It would also be nice if I could click on the links of said tagcloud to automatically add those tags to the post I am composing, but that is much less high on the scale of usefulness.

Thanks. :)
Hopefully it can be implemented.

Why on earth would all the occurrences of that character be highlighted? When I highlight a word, not all occurrences of that word are highlighted--why would a character be any different?

BTW, there was no need to be rude. And when you are learning a language, generally the meaning of words is what you are interested in--not learning wrote sentences for certain situations.

Finally, I second the suggestion to change the character limits on highlighting. I, too, have problems with the character limits on clippings--though mine are generally that I can't go over a certain limit, rather that under.

Seems like you guys have a lot on your to-do list! Thanks for all your hard work. :)

I don't know about the second question, but as to the first, I think I can help. Warning: I have not yet tried this with sticky notes, merely clipping text. You have to highlight and clip the smaller sections (inside the bigger section) first. After that, you just highlight the whole block. When you go to your my bookmarks page, you will see it as two separate clippings. Very useful!

Now that I think of it, if nothing else, you should be able to add sticky notes separately from your my bookmarks page. Or you can try adding the sticky note to the small bit before clipping the large bit and seeing if that works as well.