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While Diigo toolbar and Diigolet are powerful tools that substantially enhance your browsing / online research experience, here are two more new ways to let you to easily add a bookmark to your diigo account directly on the website:
“Add A Bookmark”:
Go to your “My Bookmarks” section and check the upper right hand corner, copy & paste the URL in the input field, then click “Add” . You will be prompted to edit any tag(s), description, and select the list / group (optional) that you wish to add. Click “Save”, and that’s it.
New “Post to Diigo” simple Bookmarklet:
For those who need to do some rapid bookmarking or a super easy way to get started bookmarking with diigo, then try the new bookmarklet on your “Tools >> Post to Diigo” section. Follow the direction on the page to drag and drop the button to your browser.
June 27th, 2008
We appreciate how “precious” everyone’s computer desktop space is. Some people are even reluctant to install any browser extension / toolbar because of that concern. So we have made our toolbar quite flexible. Below we use Firefox to illustrate the many ways the Diigo toolbar can be customized. Customization with Internet Explorer is somewhat different, but equally versatile.
The default look of the Diigo Toolbar is as follows:
If you think this is taking too much of your screen space, you can customize it in many ways.
Option 1:
You can have as many or as few Diigo buttons as you need on your desktop. Just pick and choose which button(s) you need by going to Diigo toolbar (Diigo >> Options >> Toolbar & Menu >> Select toolbar Buttons):
Option 2:
Completely hide the Diigo toolbar (go to View >> Toolbars) and only use the context menu and content selection menu.
Option 3:
Merge the Diigo toolbar with another toolbar. For example, Go to View >> Toolbars >> Customize, and then drag the bookmark toolbar items onto the Diigo toolbar, and then hide the bookmark toolbar. See below.
In fact, you can save more screen space by removing the built-in search box and merge the rest of the navigation bar to the top bar, and then hide the navigation bar, resulting in the following set-up that is extremely compact and handy
Option 4:
You can also drag any of the buttons on the Diigo toolbar and move them to other bars, then hide the Diigo toolbar. In the screenshot below, the Diigo button is moved to the top bar, and the Diigo toolbar is hidden
March 27th, 2008
If you’re in a hurry, the Diigo toolbar offers the “One-Click Save” button. Some of you may wonder “what happened to the “QuickD” button in the old toolbar? Well, here are a few changes we believe will help improve the usability:
The “One-Click Save” button now serves two purposes:
Also, a related topic: there is now a better way to view a “Filtered bookmark list” in the new sidebar vs. the previous version. We will cover that topic in a separate Tip in this series.
March 23rd, 2008
Bookmarking is quite simple with Diigo. Click here to watch a short video clip.
Recommended Tags, Add to List / Group, Share with friend, Twitterthis ~ just to name a few ~ all these are just one click away within the new bookmarking window!
To learn more about various bookmarking options in Diigo, plesae visit our new “Bookmarking Help” page.
March 23rd, 2008
The completely re-designed Diigo toolbar now offers a more intuitive user interface for beginners and lots more power features for advanced power users as well. We hope we’ve struck a nice balance for all. And of course, don’t forget to check out the new awesome sidebar within the new toolbar (more tips to come soon.)
Before we begin, please make sure you’ve installed the latest toolbar from the Diigo toolbar download page… Although our system should auto-update if you have previously installed an earlier version of the diigo toolbar, you can double check whether you have the latest one by looking up your toolbar version # (in toolbar: Diigo >> Help >> About) against the version number on the main Diigo toolbar download page.
Note: a few users have reported sign-in problem. Most likely it’s due to the fact that somehow your system prevents a proper auto-update. If that’s the case, we’d recommend that you re-install the latest toolbar. You should be in good shape after the re-install. If not, please let us know.
Now, the Diigo button: with the right pull down menu, the new Diigo button allows you to easily access all important areas of Diigo. Here are few changes from the previous version:
- This replaces the earlier version of the Diigo button that carried out dynamic functions. Each function now has its own button for a more intuitive user experience. We will elaborate more on each of the functions in other tips in this series.
- Once the Diigo toolbar is installed, much of the functions can also be conveniently accessed through the context menu (also known as the right-click menu). The context (right-click) menu is also more streamlined compared with the previous version:
- When you’re ready to bookmark a page, right-click, and you will see “Bookmark this page” to Diigo.
- If you select a block of text then right-click, you will then see “Highlight” and “Highlight and Bookmark“
- Of course, don’t forget about the sometimes overlooked, but very, very useful diigo “Content Selection Menu” - which we will cover in a separate tip in this series.
March 23rd, 2008
