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Highlights not saving anymore!

> the first highlighted marking per page will stick

You might find that recently added highlights:

* disappear when you reload the page on which you draw them
* are not in your library.

1. http://blog.diigo.com/2007/09/10/webslides-diigo-transforms-bookmarks-once-more/

2. in the search field, enter WebSlides

3. click 'Go!'

Results http://blog.diigo.com/index.php?s=WebSlides&searchbutton=Go%21 suggest

> No Results for 'WebSlides'
>
> Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn't here.

bump

Not all searches fail.

Some are OK:

http://blog.diigo.com/index.php?s=ideas&searchbutton=Go%21
— finds http://blog.diigo.com/2007/04/05/diigo-group-forums-is-here/ (2007-05-04)

http://blog.diigo.com/index.php?s=Diigo&searchbutton=Go%21
— finds that April 2007 post, plus two from March 2007

but most other searches fail, e.g.
http://blog.diigo.com/index.php?s=Chrome&searchbutton=Go%21 does not find
http://blog.diigo.com/2010/02/26/diigo-web-highlighter-and-bookmark-chrome-extension-v1-5-2-is-out/

http://blog.diigo.com/ responds:

Site Temporarily Unavailable

We apologize for the inconvenience. Please contact the webmaster/ tech support immediately to have them rectify this.
error id: "bad_httpd_conf"

Prioritise this bug? Assuming that press and other reviewers may look to the blog to see what's new …

> imported … tag these and sort … many lists. … 
> do not know what lists I may ultimately want

An interesting topic!

The main help page http://help.diigo.com/ does not mention 'list'.

New users probably imagine a Diigo list being a good utility for organisation and management. Not necessarily true.

FWIW I tend to use lists for presentation, not much else.

I see a hint in the main banner to focus on library, networks and groups:



but still, I think that inline help re: lists (without referring the user to a separate help area) could be useful.

> figured it out. I am going to tag

That's the smart approach.

Between Diigo 3.x and Diigo 4.0 beta, a mass of work went into making single- and multiple-word tags much, much more useful in:

* personal libraries (bookmarks)
* networks (bookmarks)
* groups (bookmarks + topics)

My favourite tag-related improvement is the NOT operator in groups, so for example
http://groups.diigo.com/group/Diigo_HQ/content/tag/bug%20NOT%20Diigolet%20NOT%20resolved

YMMV :) and I'm not a fan of tags, but they can be very effective in Diigo.

> inside a list … know what other list(s) the bookmarks I'm looking at are already in.

OK, that rings a bell. Is that suggestion in another topic that I worked on recently?

> New users probably imagine a Diigo list being a good utility for organisation and management.

http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/https%3A%2F%2Fsites.google.com%2Fa%2Fdiigo.com%2Fdiigo-help%2Fhow-to-guide%2Flists?tab=comment&gname=Diigo_HQ presents highlights from outdated help for a previous version of Diigo. At the time, lists were described as "… a great way to organize …".

The requirement — four characters or more — has been in place for as long as I can remember.

Please, what's an example of a page with a string of two or three characters to be highlighted?

Bear in mind that when the page is reloaded, with Diigo annotations, the highlight will be drawn over the first occurrence of the string.

S C wrote:

> If I highlight less than 4 characters it doesn't allow me to add a highlight.

I wrote:

> The requirement - four characters or more …

On closer inspection, the requirement seems to be a selection of five characters or more.

If I highlight four or less (using Diigolet 3.1b572 with Safari 4.0.3 (6531.9) in Mac OS X 10.6.1), then an attempt to highlight will toggle the highlight button into a different mode - and the cursor changes to match the mode.

S C wrote:

> I was able to annotate two-digit numbers until recently.

Was that definitely using Diigo or Diigolet? Any possibility that you were using some other software or service that allows highlighting? Zotero maybe?

> some kind of XPath heuristic or maybe relate it to the
> surrounding text (context)

… I'll tag this topic as a suggestion.

Regards
Graham (Diigo user)

> Maybe it was loading slowly yesterday

If the symptom recurs — if your browser suggests that the management view of your library has loaded, but things are missing — please revisit this topic.

It's certainly true that the design was improved so that check boxes etc. load later than other parts of the page. (If those boxes load too early, users tend to click too soon.)

Screen shots at http://www.wuala.com/Diigo-4/1178385 (referred from http://groups.diigo.com/group/Diigo_HQ/content/1178385) prove that part of the management interface is sometimes missing from views of a list.

> Perhaps it's multiple bugs.

Considering nearby topics, I see at least:

* dataloss affecting highlights and tags

* inability to stick notes to new highlights (probably because the new highlights are not properly saved).

> one of the missing ones back at the end of the list.

An edited bookmark /might/ leap from the end of the library, to the beginning. In the past, bookmarks were sorted by date added. Then in Diigo 4.0 beta the sort order was changed, to date modified. Some (not all) types of edition are recognised as a modification for library sort purposes.

I suspect that you'll find your bookmark - not completely missing, but somewhere in your library. A simple search (not using tags) may find the bookmark.

Regards
Graham

Cross reference

http://groups.diigo.com/group/Diigo_HQ/content/1205356 (2010-01-11)
See what lists bookmarks are in, while looking at a list

> lists bookmarks as private

At http://groups.diigo.com/group/Diigo_HQ/content/959613#31 Joel (Diigo) wrote:

> an algorithm … will change the bookmark to private
> automatically. However, the algorithm may do some false
> judgement. Let me know the URLs which were converted to private
> and we will try to figure out how to improve the algorithm.

Please add to that topic a note of the URLs that were converted to private.

Thanks

Is the requirement to highlight:

a) at least four characters

or

b) at least five characters?

Related:

http://groups.diigo.com/group/Diigo_HQ/content/961246 (2009-09-19)
Minimum limit on number of characters?

http://groups.diigo.com/group/Diigo_HQ/content/1419780 (2010-03-22)
Strange Behavior when Attempting to Highlight with Diigolet

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Please allow highlighting for less than four characters!

A very minor point: with http://www.diigo.com/list/grahamperrin/communities-uob-uos as my starting point, when I compare the counts for University of Brighton and University of Sussex with the actual number of bookmarks and readers presented, there are mismatches.

http://www.diigo.com/community/reader/www.faviki.com?page_num=2 shows
81-118 of 80 readers with only
five avatars on that page.

Screen shots at http://www.wuala.com/Diigo-4/552265

Bookmark Quick-Delete

There are past discussions on the subject.

> if clicking the "One-click save" button while on a bookmarked page
> deleted the bookmark

-1

Changing the meaning of a button could have unexpected results.

A button that's intended to save should never cause deletion.