Here is a particularly informative one, http://www.phil-butler.com/2008/03/21/diigo-test-it/


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Thanks!

Your suggestion will take quite a bit more work. But I can see its value. We will look into that a little after the new release is out (soon!)

If you like our current version, the new release is going to blow you away :)

Andrew,

Diigo's annotations are all url-centric. Generalizing that may be possible, but it would involve too much more complexity for limited benefits.

I think it is a simple and clear improvement. Let's do it.

indeed, the terms of service was done a long time ago, and is in need to a good review again. Will take that into consideration. Thanks.

currently Diigo only allows you to edit the url while saving the bookmark. Once saved, the only way to edit the url is to delete the bookmark and save it again.

This will cause some complexity that we are not sure it is really worth the trouble.

for example, if you have highlighted on a url, and then changes that url to another url, do you transfer those highlights to the new url? and if so, how do we know that highlight even exist on the new url?

can you share the scenarios under which you really want to edit the url?


windyn wrote:
> I had some dialogue with support and also dialogue via the forums.
>
> I had thought this was to be included in V3??
>
> Definitely a serious requirement particularly if you have taken the time to tag and comment/highlight.
>
> Delete and Re-add means wasting time redoing all this.
>
> aquadragon1984 wrote:
> > Totally a must. *nodnod*

in the new toolbar version, you can easily remove a bookmark from the toolbar

So I think you will find "remove and re-bookmark" is just as easy as "edit"

pgstreby wrote:
> My group tags haven't been working well (my individual tags work fine), so I'm hoping there's a fix in the >works or that v.3 will take care of the problem.

can you give a little more detail on what is not working with group tags? thanks

kfink140 wrote:
> I would love to use diigo with my students, but I need to be able to monitor their activity online.

wonder what you mean by monitoring them? other ways for you to consider are to add them as your friends or to a group

thanks for this thoughtful piece. I think you are right on.

--- I desperately need a MY FEEDS section!!! Somewhere where I can manage the feeds from my lists, groups, tags, etc.

What do you like to do with "managing the feeds"?

I really like that you are using diigo's annotation features to produce newsletter-like feeds.

Have you checked out our lists and webslides features? It seems to offer much of what you want for publishing, such as title and description. please let me know if that works for you.

There are several ways to go about this.

You can keep your bookmarks private, but you can add them to a list or a group. You can then use the rss address of the list or the group to publish elsewhere.

You can do this even if the group is private . In the new release, a private list will also have a secret rss address.

Hope these solve your needs.

thank you for your thoughtful feedback

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.

good point. thanks.


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.

can you share the search plug-ins you are referring to. thanks

for:user may make more sense than for:group, since group names now tend to be quite long

btw, you can also save user name or other private notes as private page comment.

another use I found for diigo is to track changing stats. for example, on this page
http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/members/Eric/, you see how many users mybloglog has at any given time - just look at the number of friends Eric has :)

then you can add that number as a page comment and the next time you come around, you can see what was the number before and add the new number as a page comment again. This way you can track how the number changes over time.

Recently, our personal experience (from USA) with the diigo site has been fairly speedy -- most of the pages load in 1-2 seconds for myself.

But it seems that some users are still complaining about the site performance. if you do experience slow pages, please let us know:

-- your location
-- which pages?
-- when?
- roughly how many seconds of loading time?
- if you are accessing Diigo from outside of USA, how does our site speed compare with other US sites such as del.icio.us?


Our team is working hard to improve all aspects of the user experience, and we won't stop until it is perfect! Your help is greatly appreciated!

We have carefully examined the system log and have not been able to see anything related to your experience. If you can recall anymore details, it would really help. Your experience could also be related to temporary poor connection such as packet loss between you and our server.

In the future, it would really help us greatly if the person reporting problems can do the following:

- capture the screenshots of any error message you see
- run command: "ping www.diigo.com -t" and let us know what you see.

Thanks!

If you are using the toolbar, wheneve you bookmark or highlight, you should get a message in the upper left corner of your screen as to whether the submission is successful.

What messages do you see?

Hans,

diigo full-text caching is done by server robot in the background, so if the page is password protected, we can not access it. also, we will not include the indexed page in the public search result if it is a private bookmark.


hanswobbe wrote:
> Maggie...
>
> Your reply raises a question that is of considerable interest to me.
>
> I use DiiGo to Annotate and Tag pages that may exist only on (semi) private systems located behind firewalls. How does diigo's caching come into play in these situations? I'm asking since I can imagine several very different scenarios depending on how caching has been implemented and I would like to have enough of an understanding of the diigo implementation to adequately appreciate the security considerations that may apply.

As the group admin, you can just delete it.

Two ways to do delete / edit:

1) check off any number of bookmarks and use "delete" in the "More Action" pull down menu

2) You can find the delete function (along with edit, forward, etc..) when you move your mouse around the "blank space" in the right -hand side of each bookmark. You will see additional functions show up when you mouse over that space... give that a try.