If you’re reading this blog, you most likely read other blogs and articles on a regular basis. If you’re like me, when you come across something that you want to save for later reference, you probably bookmark it in your browser. Despite my best efforts, my bookmarks had gotten out of control. Something had to be done.
That’s when I came across my new favorite tool. It’s called Diigo, and I use it every day. Diigo allows you to highlight and save blog articles. Pre-Diigo, I would bookmark an article, and when I wanted to reference it, I would have to read the entire article again to get to the part I wanted. Now I highlight and bookmark the article, and when I want to access that information, I go straight to what I need. Diigo even allows you to put sticky notes directly onto blog posts and articles. You can add your own comments so that you know why the heck you saved and highlighted the article in the first place. The highlight and annotate options are particularly helpful if you do research prior to writing articles.
For Firefox users, there is a Diigo Firefox plug in. For Internet Explorer users, you will be able to download the browser plug in when you sign up for your free Diigo account. The toolbar has options to bookmark, highlight, comment and send. You can even highlight a portion of an article, click “send,” and email just that snippet to a colleague or friend. The emailed snippet contains a link so that the recipient can access the original source if they want more information after reading the blurb. You can also add your own comments when emailing snippets.
After you have installed the Diigo Toolbar, simply click on the Diigo icon and select the option to import your bookmarks. Then you can create lists in Diigo in order to organize your bookmarks. When you highlight and comment during your web travels, there is an option to save the bookmark to a list after you click “Bookmark” on the Diigo toolbar.
Wade Young is a Denver mortgage broker.
I prefer Microsoft’s One note. Its simple and easy to share.
Thanks Todd. I do tons of research for my articles and the Favorites were getting out of control….
Wade,
Thanks for a great post -glad that you found Diigo useful. The next generation Diigo V3.0 just launched – lots more new goodies – love to invite you to explore and perhaps even form a mortgage group to share good mortgage related resources with others!
Best,
Maggie
Google Notebook…has an awesome similar feature. highlight, save, preserve link.
but I’ll check it out, thanks.
thanks Tood, I am jsut really starting to blog and I am starting to get to the point athat my bookmarks are out of control as well, reading your post and the comments of other it looks like there are a few different options to get better orginized with the blogs and post that I read thanks alot.
Wade – thanks for the heads up. Along with twitter, its changed the way I blog. While I like the bookmark feature, the “Send to Blog” on the toolbar is awesome.
Makes it much easier to post interesting items on the fly – while they are still interesting.