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diigo ist ein Onlinebookmarkingtool with a twist, wie auf Techcrunch immer alles so schön angesagt wird. “Bäh, wer brauch denn _noch ein_ Onlinebookmarkingtool”, höre ich sie hinter ihren Tastaturen aufstöhnen. Aber halte inne, oh ungeduldiger Blogleser, sonst verpasst Du womöglich das Entscheidende: Denn diigo ist der mit Abstand beste Service um Online Texte/Seiten nicht nur zu archivieren sondern auch Passagen hervorzuheben und eigene Notizen (für später oder für Andere) zu vermerken und mehr.

Specifically, just to give your readers an idea of how I use diigo: I’ve used it to research archival material for the city I live in — archival visual material of the built environment, which I then tagged according to time period (1860s through to 1970s). Converting these diigo bookmarks from “private” (my default) to “public,” I was then able to put this research on my wiki, an online/offline community project. In addition, I have a score of “private” category pages, online material about urbanism, urbanplanning, Jane Jacobs, Vancouver (I live in Victoria, but Vancouver figures, too), and other texts, which I could not only bookmark and tag, but which I could highlight & annotate. When it comes time to write an article, I pull out the appropriate articles and click on “expand” to see all my comments, highlights, annotations. I can then easily extract all the relevant material as notes for my article. I can’t imagine having to do all this via copy-and-paste into a text editor, for example. With diigo, boom, it’s all done with a click. Perfect.