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.