Ryan Bretag’s post with the Del.icio.us vs. Diigo comparison table caught my attention. I looked at Diigo several months back, and I didn’t see it as substantially better than Del.icio.us, which has a large user base. But I’m rethinking that now, since Diigo has new features. Read about Dean Shareski’s headache (all of it) if you decide to join. The headache thing was kind of funny because I read only the first part of Dean’s post before I raced off to see who, in my gmail account, was already using Diigo. And then I almost sent my entire list of email contacts an invitation to join – like Dean did – except that I got a warning that I was about to send a message to 132 people, prompting me to uncheck a box so only a couple of folks got the “befriend me” message.
Using Del.icio.us regularly for a few years, I’ve built a monstrous pile of links. Today I moved 5,587 of them to Diigo. I’m not familiar yet with Diigo, and this is not a review of its features set. A couple of things didn’t turn out quite the way I would have liked. I expected that my Del.icio.us tags and notes would import. But they didn’t. So now I’ve got several thousand untagged and unannotated links in my Diigo account. Searching them is not real smooth, and neither is deleting them. Unlike Del.icio.us, there doesn’t seem to be a way to edit tags as a batch, sitewide. So to change something, it seems that you have to page through all your links. This bugs me. And without tags or notes, with that volume of material, I don’t know….Is there a way to fix this? Maybe I’m not so dissatisfied with Del.icio.us, after all.
But the networking features in Diigo might make using it worthwhile. What to do?
Anyone who cares to join me there, let me know. I’m open.
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doug,
Delicious tags and annotations should be preserved during import. Please try again and let me know if it is not.
edit tags: surely we allow you to edit tags. click “edit” at the tag cloud.
Other problems you have: just spend a little more time with it, and you should see solutions to most of your difficulties.
Doug … love your philosophy; couldn’t agree more … came here as a result of my Diigo blog search RSS feed at Google Reader.
Also in the feed this morning is this – http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/archives/1405 – by David Warlick. In it he talks about “Giigo processing del.icio.us tags”, which makes me think there might be some capability there. You might want to contact Dave.
Warren
Doug;
The good thing is that you can continue using both because you can configure Diigo so that every link in Diigo goes also to Delicious. So you can have the best of the two worlds. For me Diigo is the way to go.
Hi Doug,
Thanks for checking out Diigo 3.0! Like to address few issues that you mentioned:
1) Imported bookmarks – their tags take a little while for our tag engine to process. By now, you should have your tagcloud completely showing – please check your “My
Bookmarks” section.
2) Batch tag editing is a breeze at Diigo – in fact, one of the very best!
Several ways:
a) Go to My Tags>>”Edit” tab. Edit or even merge tags together see http://help.diigo.com/How-To_Guide/Managing_Bookmarks#My_Tags
b) In Your “My Bookmarks” section, check off the bookmark(s) that you wish to edit and use the pull down “More Actions”>> Edit tags to do batch tag editing…
3) Groups – it’s optional whether you wish to join a group or not. If a group is not what you need, you can also have the option to “quit” a group. If you wish to take on a more active role in a group, you can also ask the group owner to assign you as a moderator, so that you can have edit right.
For new users, just ignore most other advanced functions and start with just bookmarking and highlighting. Don’t just simply bookmark. Adding the highlight and sticky notes functions that allow you to mark on any webpage just like on paper – then you got a winning combo there that will really increase your personal productivity – and as you can imagine, there are lots of interesting possibilities to apply this to the classroom!
As you increase your comfort level, then explore a bit more at a time. But again, everything else is completely optional. It’s nice to know that Diigo platform is quite flexible and will adapt as your needs increase.
Welcome to the Diigo community! Welcome to interact with us frequently in our user forum!
Best,
Maggie
I never jumped on to delicious or any other bookmarking site. Therefore, as I have just begun using Diigo I find it amazing. But I have never used any others, so I’m not a great judge. I was drawn in by the whole idea of highlighting and sticky notes. In my district I feel like I have to prove things and have evidence, Diigo allows me to do that without a lot of trouble.
Howdy, I illustrated the process for you, Doug. You can find it online at Around the Corner:
http://tinyurl.com/yvc883
Best wishes,
Miguel Guhlin
Around the Corner-MGuhlin.net
http://mguhlin.net
Glad my pain could be of help to others.
I’m not yet sold on Diigo– have been a member there for years now and each time they revise, I try it… but I just don’t see that it adds anything that I need and it seems to come with considerable overhead. del.icio.us has the user base and more than enough social features for what I need. But who knows, maybe in the future
I look forward to seeing how it works for you.
I’m still with you, Chris. But it was a slow weekend, and I thought I’d give Diigo a run. Some glitchy things have happened, and we’ll see how they work out. One other thing that I like about Delcious, besides the large user base, is the absence of clutter. There’s a lot to be said for the simplicity of ’small pieces, loosely joined.’ That said, I like the additional options for annotation and collaboration in Diigo, and the Diigo development force, Joel and Maggie, are working with me to make it go.
I’ll post again soon with an update.
Doug: I am also in the midst of a Diigo switch experiment and the jury is still out for me. I need to experiment more with the annotation aspects. One thing I do not like is that if people leave annotation comments, the post visitors without the Diigo toolbar installed do not see the comments. I agree the simplicity of del.icio.us is very appealing as well as powerful. It is impossible to form a credible opinion about Diigo without giving it a whirl tho.
I deleted the imported, untagged, links – which took some doing. I’m now posting to Del.icio.us through Diigo. And I’m not sold on much of what Diigo offers. I still prefer the simplicity of Del.icio.us. Diigo’s an experiment for me.
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