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
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
The entire Diigo team is pleased to announce to our readers, and the rest of the world, the new Diigo Version 3 goes live today! In our passion to make Diigo the best in its class, we’ve added features, made our existing features easier to use, and come up with what we think you’ll find is an even more incredible platform than before. Before we give you a peek at all Diigo now has to offer, though, we want to thank each and every one of our users and fans, especially those who helped so much in our beta testing phase.
Thank you Diigo Community!
Despite all that we’ve done to make Diigo really useful, it wouldn’t be what it is today without every one of you. Your help, encouragement, suggestions, ideas, and even the bug reports 
all helped us make sure we stayed on the right track. We added tons of cool features & new innovations, but we needed you to help us make sure those features were easy to figure out and simple to use. So, in a very real sense, all of you who take an interest in Diigo are a valuable part of the Diigo team, and you have as much reason to be proud of today’s launch of Version 3 as we do.
Diigo puts the Social into Bookmarking
We’ve also made a lot of new friends, which, of course, is part of what Version 3 is all about, connecting with people through knowledge and common interests. From the beginning, Diigo has been about more than just social bookmarking, but with this version we also put a real emphasis on the “Social” in “Social Bookmarking” or “Social Annotation”. Social is a big buzz word these days. But different from the typical social networks, Diigo is going “social”, not just for the pure sake of being “social”. In fact, the uniqueness of Diigo’s new social features is the fact that you don’t necessarily need to have a lot of friends to begin deriving the benefits of Diigo. While our users can actively interact with other users if they choose, Diigo’s advanced algorithms and carefully thought-out UI design unobtrusively harness the power of the Diigo community for each individual user and give you the benefit of social information networking with no extra effort on your part!
Our goal was to enable our users to enjoy a greatly increased potential for meaningful and productive discussions anywhere on the Web, and to fully unleash the power of the “writable Web”. We have built upon Diigo’s foundation as a powerful personal research tool with features designed to improve the ease and productivity of collaboration within the office or even across continents to offer our users all the benefits of social networking without the drawbacks.
Harness Collective Wisdom
With every Diigo user tagging and annotating resources online, the Diigo community has collectively created a repository of filtered, annotated content on nearly every subject imaginable. In many cases, you may be able to find resources on a specific subject more quickly by searching Diigo than by using one of the major search engines. In addition, you will have the opportunity to gain unique insight from the public notes and comments of others interested in the subject. Finally, our system recommends news and resources based on your personal interests. This makes it simple for you to keep up to date in any areas of special interest to you.
Share & Discover
When you find something interesting, funny or amazing on the Internet what do you do? You forward it to friends. Diigo offers several methods for sharing bookmarks and notes, so you can also keep in touch and connect with friends effortlessly. And, whenever you want to, Diigo offers multiple ways to help you find people with common interests as well. You can easily form your own community within the larger Diigo community, one focused on the ideas and issues you care about. Whether you hope to increase your productivity at work, promote a cause that is special to you, or just pursue a hobby or passion, a community of users dedicated to the same goal can help you.
You are what you annotate
Remember, you are what you annotate. The sites you find interesting, the public highlights and notes you leave, all these help show your interests and expertise. That helps you to connect with exactly those people who are most like you. Once you’ve found others who share similar interests, you can share resources, benefit each other, and make everyone’s life easier. In other words, Diigo provides social information networking through knowledge-sharing, letting you benefit in a real and practical way.
So with this new release, going beyond web annotation, social bookmarking, and existing social networks such as MySpace, Linkedin, etc, the new Diigo provides a uniquely knowledge-centric social network facilitating knowledge management, sharing and discovery, as well as building social connections and community through content and knowledge. This is just the tip of the iceberg, and we are excited about the possibilities. Going forward, we will relentlessly continue to innovate to make Diigo the best knowledge sharing and management platform for individuals, work groups, and companies.
How to start Diigo-ing
There is a lot to explore in the new Diigo. So make sure you check out our new intro video, what’s new, install the latest toolbar and check out the cool new sidebar, and of course, delve into the new site. Also if somehow you cannot find your favorite feature right away, don’t worry. It has probably been re-arranged somehow. Just check out our new Help section, or come join us in our user forum. Bugs reporting - we’ve tried hard to test through the system as thoroughly as possible. Please do let us know if we have overlooked something. Also, let us know your first impression, likes / dislikes, feedback and suggestion. Lastly, if you like what you see, make sure to help us spread the word!
That’s it for now. Enjoy! And thank you for your continued support to help us make Diigo better and better!
Sincerely,
The entire Diigo team
March 20th, 2008
Just rolled out a new feature: Group Digest Email Alert
Now you can receive a timely Group Digest that summarizes the new additions to your group and delivered to your email according to your preference.
This is in addition to the RSS feeds support for group bookmarks and group forums, and email monitor for any particular forum thread that you are interested in following. So depending on how you like info delivered to you, you can easily stay on top of your group activities.
August 23rd, 2007
We have just updated a new diigolet that supports sharing bookmarks / annotations to your selected group(s).
We recommend that you completely reinstall the Diigolet in the Tools section this time (see instruction here).
Click Diigolet, after the menu drops down, usse the “Bookmark / Share” button to share to groups.
Diigolet is a lightweight but great alternative for those who cannot or don’t wish to download a toolbar, and for Safari, Maxthon, K-Meleon, etc. users…
June 25th, 2007
Here are a list of new features that we just updated for the Diigo Groups:
- RSS support: by private / public group bookmarks or group tag
- Browse through public groups by category: “Browse by Group Category” in View Groups
- Full text search support to search a group: “Find / Join a group” search box in View Groups
- Search Group bookmarks by Tag or Full-text: When you go to a particular group, use the search box on the top
- Pull up all forum posts by username: click a username in a group forum, all posts by that user in that group will be displayed.
- Diigolet now supports groups: go to “My Tools” section and reinstall. I love the new Diigolet… Give it a try!
Group forum full-text search is not being updated in this release yet, but forthcoming… Stay tuned…
June 25th, 2007
The Diigo toolbar offers lots of advanced and powerful features. Many are fully customizable in the Toolbar options area.
We’ve been working to find a better way to let new users to learn the basic Diigo offerings, so they can easily get started without being overwhelmed by all the bells and whistles. As they get more familiar with the site and basic features, we can then help users explore the many advanced Diigo features they may not be even aware of.
With that in mind, we thought of a three pronged approach:
- Start with the Diigolet (no installation needed).With Diigo’s capability of marking directly on any webpage, our “Welcome - Getting Started” is uniquely interactive, ie. any new user can read the instructions and immediately follow along and try out highlighting & adding sticky notes right on the same page as the instructions.
- Recommended Toolbar Settings:To make it easier for beginners and advanced users to explore Diigo’s toolbar capabilities at different stages, we have decided to offer two kinds of recommended settings: “Beginners” & “Advanced Users”.
Go to Diigo toolbar >> Options>>Toolbar and Menus tab, and select the preferred mode. Make sure you click “OK” to save. Of course, you can always customize any setting by checking off the options you prefer.
Beginner Settings:
- Icons displayed: Highlight, Sticky Note (floating note), Filtered Bookmark Lists, Options, My Home
- Each icon’s text label is shown
- The Content Selection Menu (CSM) is disabled
- You are not prompted to add tags when first highlighting
- Diigo is not displayed on the top in the right-click menu
- Advanced Toolbar Settings:
- Icons displayed: Sticky Note (floating note), Filtered Bookmark list, Clip, My Home, QuickD, Search, Blog this, About
- Each icon’s text label is not shown
- CSM is enabled
- You are prompted to add tags
- Diigo is displayed on the top in the right-click menu
We’re constantly looking for ways to improve our users’ experience. We’d very much appreciate your feedback and input to help us make Diigo better and better.
Cheers,
~ Maggie
May 12th, 2007
Good news to share: A new FF / Flock toolbar (version 1.0.2007051201) is available - Diigo now supports clipping and playing your favorite videos & flashes!
Press the 
icon in the toolbar to turn on / off the video clipping mode, then click the little blue 
button on the upper right hand corner of any video to save it to your bookmarks. That’s it! The “Clip” icon can be found in the Diigo toolbar Options (add or delete toolbar buttons) and it’s part of our “Recommended Settings for Advanced Users“.
Currently we support video/ flash media hosted by these sites:
youtube.com, myspace.com, video.google.com, video.yahoo.com, atomfilms.com, bolt.com, break.com , dailymotion.com, ifilm.com, metacafe.com , myspace.com, podtech.net , stupidvideos.com, uncutvideo.aol.com , vimeo.com
If you are a FF / Flock user, please make sure that you upgrade your toolbar to the latest version and give it a try. Our new IE toolbar with video media support will be available shortly.
Note: Thanks to early feedback from some of our users, we have now made the “Clip” button an easy ON / OFF switch. Click it only when you need it. Click it again to disable it.
~ Maggie
May 12th, 2007
