DD Shift

I am hearing the song “Your Ghost” by Kristin Hersh. Haven’t heard that song for a long time…

I have spent the last few days working with Diigo. I have been a user of del.icio.us (very simply– to track bookmarks). I think I’ll move on to Diigo. I like the highlight feature of Diigo. It is that note-taking feature that I have been missing on the web. I’m certain that I will continue to use Diigo– simply because it allows me to use online information more efficiently. I plan to share it with our DP Director to introduce as a research tool for our students.

There are a couple of things that I really don’t like about Diigo. I want to get them out here:

• Diigo creates a side-window where you can manage bookmarks, examine your notes on the current page and see your “friends”. Already with only 20+ bookmarks, I can see that my bookmarks are out of control. They should be organized by tag… Or, there should be tab for tags so that you can just click on one of your own tags and see your bookmarks. You can search by tag, but that means that you have to remember what you tagged various things.
• There is no easy way to export your bookmarks as citations in MLA or APA format. This is a must-have feature for academic work. Our textbook (which I don’t have in front of me) talked about a site that did this. I want this feature.
• The interface for tagging and grouping is not the most intuitive. It should be very obvious and easy to tag and group bookmarks. As it stands, you have to go through a few clicks to get to the grouping feature sometimes. It should be consistently available. Sometimes tagging is not available right at the forefront. Once again, this should be consistently available.
• It is reallly, really annoying when I click on the “Highlight” button, and it does not highlight. This is super frustrating because it does not always work. I would say that it has a 90% functioning rate, but sometimes I am relegated to commenting on the whole page and indicating in that comment where the interesting content is located.

I’m wondering how this can work with Zotero– if it is overkill to use these two tools together.

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