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How is Diigo Better?
We're often asked how our service compares with the traditional way of bookmarking, and differs from other social bookmarking sites, such as del.icio.us. Well, of course, the most obvious is that only Diigo provides the web highlight / annotation service. In addition, there are many other important features and details that set us apart. (We, and some of users, believe that Diigo is almost certainly the best online bookmarking and annotation service out there. We hope you agree with us, too.) As one user puts it, "Diigo, I'm calling it - del.icio.us with brains"!
Here is a simple comparison chart that lists some of the differences.
| Diigo | Traditional Browsing | Del.icio.us |
| Highlight / Annotate/Forward/Blog | ||
| Annotate while browsing: Browsing with "highlighter, scanner, and pen".Add and share Sticky Notes. Unique to Diigo! |
Passive browsing: Web pages are read-only. | Not available |
| Extract highlights: Easily extract and compile all your highlights across multiple pages for a given subject. Unique to Diigo! |
No easy way to extract data: except to "copy and paste" individual paragraphs from different pages to a Word document. | Not available |
| Interact & collaborate: With sticky notes on specific areas of a webpage, interact with people on the very page you are reading. Unique to Diigo! |
Isolated: Browsing alone keeps you away from interacting with others and making new friends. |
Not available |
| Forward highligted & annotated pages: Easily refer people
to specific contents, possibly with sticky notes within context Unique to Diigo! |
Not available |
Not available |
| Tight integration with blogging: Our "Send to Blog" and
"Enhanced Linkrolls" make it effortless to move from browsing to blogging Unique to Diigo! |
Not available |
Limited |
| Online Bookmarking | ||
| Access anywhere, anytime: Keep all your bookmarks online and access them from anywhere, using any browser.
Diigo also allows simultaneous bookmarking to several other bookmarking services, as well as the local folders. |
Limited access and no back-up: "Favorites" stored on and accessible from only one PC. | Yes, but no simultaneous bookmarking to local folders and elsewhere. |
| Search: Titles, tags, highlights, notes, full-texts, and user are all searchable, in any combination - A rich advanced search syntax is also supported - find what you need in an instant! | Cannot search "My Favorites" | No full-text search |
| Set privacy on everything: You decide what to share and what to keep private. | No Sharing: Your bookmarks remain isolated in your local drive. | Yes |
| Tagging: A better way to organize information and find things faster. Easily pull up bookmark lists associated with multiple tags. | Folders and Sub-folders: "Once in, hard to find". | Yes |
| Archive: Save exact copies of the pages you bookmarked, not just links. | No Archive: Web contents of interest to you may disappear. | Not available |
| Picture collection: Collect your favorite pictures on the web into albums. | Cannot bookmark pictures. | Not available |
| Easy to re-organize and edit bookmarks: Edit tags (rename, merge, delete) individually, or in batch; edit or delete bookmarks individually or in batch. | Re-organize is a pain (especially for IE). No batch editing. | Limited |
| "Unread" filter: Bookmarks can be marked as "unread" for later review. | Not available | Not available |
| Import: privacy settings, tags, and title can be changed individually in the import window before importing, or in batch on the website after importing. | Limited Import: traditional browsers do not support tags, description, & overwrite. | Limited: supported by 3rd party extension. |
| Subscribe / Post lists: Bookmark lists, either by tag(s), or by a specific user, or any combination, can be subscribed on the website or through RSS. RSS, Linkroll & tagcloud can also be syndicated to other websites / blogs easily. | Not available | Yes |
| Cached bookmarking: if for any reason, the bookmarking is unsuccessful, it will be cached locally, and re-submitted automatically until succeeding. This powerful feature allows you to bookmark to Diigo even when you lose connections to Diigo servers, either because you lost internet connections or because our servers are down. Unique to Diigo! |
Not available | Not available |
| Community: Discover what the rest of the world has shared: find relevant / new content based on specific users, topics of interest (tags) defined & filtered by other users, hot lists, and more. Best way to leverage the collective wisdom of many! | Solo Discovery: Find contents by yourself | Yes |
| Other cool features | ||
Other cool features:
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Not available | Not available |