Access All Your Bookmarks Online with Diigo

Posted on 07. Aug, 2009 by Nelba Quintana in Internet Tools

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diigo-logoOne day, I got  a virus on my computer, which led to a technitian having to  re-format it. I took for granted all of my saved bookmarks in my web browser.  Those got deleted along with everything else in the reformat. All the bookmarks I had collected during a year were now gone.

If you work online or are a big web surfer, you understand how devastating this is.  Once I calmed down, I decided to explore Diigo.  Diigo is a social bookmarking service which allows you to store all of your bookmarks online.  It also stores any notes or highlighting you may do on your saved pages.

Features

Optional Toolbar

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Diigo will be at hand all the time in you computer. Downloading the toolbar takes a few seconds and it is optional. If you do not download it, you can go to the website, log in and enter your dashboard.

Recommended Tags

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Diigo automatically analyzes the page content you are surfing and recommends suitable tags for you. Just point and click, and/or enter your own tag(s).

Highlighting

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If you are a web surfer, you must come across webpages you find interesting but do not have time to read at that moment, so you may bookmark them to come back later. But, you may forget what it was that you cared about on the page. With Diigo, you can highlight the the text why you’re bookmarking that website, and then later view the page with highlightsand. No more searching through the page is necessary to understand why you considered the website you had bookmarked interesting!

Share Bookmarks

Another advantage is that you can share what you consider interesting by sending your bookmarks to Facebook , Twitter or your blog with one click, you can send a Diigo bookmark to the social network you participate. To send Diigo bookmark to Facebook, you’ll have to install the Diigo Facebook application Facebook application. Another way of sharing is joining a group.

Commenting and Conversations

When you are reading a page, you can make comments right on it, that show up as speech bubbles. If another Diigo user comes across the page, he/she’ll be able to see the comment, and a real conversation can happen. These annotations can be kept private, shared with a group within Diigo or a special link forwarded to someone else.

Conclusion

I do recommend using Diigo because it is user friendly, accesible from any PC and what is more: you can share your bookmarks with friends or colleagues. I always have my Diigo toolbar at hand in my computer and save every website I am interested there. I don´t want to loose my bookmarks again!

(By) Nelba Quintana is a teacher of English as a Second Language and coordinator of the Technology and Information Area at the School of Languages of the National University of La Plata, Argentina.  You can find her blog here.

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